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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Tallahassee, FL

February 22, 2002Henry County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 22, 2002, 9:30 AM CST for Henry County, Alabama. It was in force for 215 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Feb 22, 2002, 9:30 AM CST (15:30 UTC)
Expired
Sep 25, 2002, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
215 days
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Henry County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 184 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2002-02-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2002-02-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2271 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 221530
TORTLH
ALC031-045-061-067-069-221545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING DRILL...THIS IS A DRILL MESSAGE...REPEAT ONLY A DRILL
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
930 AM CST FRI FEB 22 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO DRILL FOR...
  COFFEE COUNTY IN ALABAMA
  DALE COUNTY IN ALABAMA
  GENEVA COUNTY IN ALABAMA
  HENRY COUNTY IN ALABAMA
  HOUSTON COUNTY IN ALABAMA
  
* UNTIL 945 AM CST...

* AT 930 AM CST...NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING OVER SOUTHEAST     
  ALABAMA. THIS IS A DRILL. AT THIS TIME PLEASE PRACTICE YOUR        
  TORNADO SAFETY PROCEDURES. IF THIS WERE AN ACTUAL TORNADO          
  WARNING...YOU SHOULD GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL 
  OF YOUR BUILDING. WEAK STRUCTURES OR VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED  
  FOR SAFE SHELTER. 

  THIS IS A TORNADO DRILL...REPEAT ONLY A DRILL. NO SEVERE WEATHER   
  IS OCCURRING OVER THE AREA.

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 22, 9:30 AM CSTTornado WarningTAECoffee, Dale, Geneva, Houston215 days

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Alabama, 2002Every tornado warning in 2002Tornadoes in 2002

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.