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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 12, 2001Houston County, Alabama; Early County, Miller County, Seminole County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 12, 2001, 3:51 PM CST for Houston County, Alabama; Early County, Miller County, Seminole County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Mar 12, 2001, 3:51 PM CST (21:51 UTC)
Expired: Mar 12, 2001, 4:15 PM CST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Houston County, AL, Early County, GA, Miller County, GA, Seminole County, GA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 12, 1:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 103 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 946 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 122152
TORTLH
ALC069-GAC099-201-253-122215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
451 PM EST MON MAR 12 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN HOUSTON COUNTY IN ALABAMA
  SOUTHWESTERN EARLY COUNTY IN GEORGIA
  WESTERN MILLER COUNTY IN GEORGIA
  NORTHERN SEMINOLE COUNTY IN GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES DONALSONVILLE...

* UNTIL 515 PM EST(415 PM CST)...

* AT 348 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES WEST OF
  DONALSONVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

IF A TORNADO THREATENS YOUR LOCATION GO TO YOUR SAFE ROOM OR TORNADO
SHELTER. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A SAFE ROOM OR TORNADO SHELTER...SEEK
SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM OF THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOME.

LAT...LON 3114 8518 3097 8513 3103 8479 3125 8473

.END

11-GOREE

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 12, 8:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee	35 min
Mar 12, 1:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee	46 min
Mar 12, 1:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Geneva	38 min
Mar 12, 1:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	32 min
Mar 12, 2:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dale, Henry, Houston	49 min
Mar 12, 2:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Geneva	49 min
Mar 12, 10:13 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty	32 min
Mar 12, 10:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Worth	26 min
Mar 12, 10:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Tift	31 min
Mar 12, 4:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur, Miller, Seminole	31 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 2001 Tornado Warnings in Alabama, 2001 Every tornado warning in 2001 Tornadoes in 2001

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.