Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 12, 2001, 5:14 PM EST for Decatur County, Miller County, Seminole County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2001, 5:14 PM EST (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2001, 5:45 PM EST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Decatur County, GA, Miller County, GA, Seminole County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 5:15 PM EST | Tornado F1 | Boykin, GA | An F1 tornado touched down just west of U.S. Highway 27 in southern Miller County and tracked east to North Eldorendo Road before it disspiated. Seven mobile homes were damaged. A roof was torn off a frame house. One frame house collapsed. Several sheds we |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
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, 2:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 86 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
606 WFUS52 KTAE 122215 TORTLH GAC087-201-253-122245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 514 PM EST MON MAR 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN DECATUR COUNTY IN GEORGIA SOUTHERN MILLER COUNTY IN GEORGIA NORTHEASTERN SEMINOLE COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 545 PM EST... * AT 509 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF IRON CITY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF DONALSONVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BOYKIN...IRON CITY BY 515 PM EST... ELDORENDO...BABCOCK BY 520 PM EST... STEINHAM STORE...BELLVIEW BY 525 PM EST... 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 3116 8483 3098 8483 3100 8452 3115 8454 .END
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 11:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dougherty | 32 min |
| Mar 12, 11:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Worth | 26 min |
| Mar 12, 11:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Tift | 31 min |
| Mar 12, 4:51 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early, Miller, Seminole | 24 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.