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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Tallahassee, FL

September 15, 2002Miller County, Seminole County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 2002, 4:11 AM EDT for Miller County, Seminole County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 days. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Sep 15, 2002, 4:11 AM EDT (08:11 UTC)
Expired
Oct 13, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
29 days
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Miller County, GA, Seminole County, GA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 15, 5:15 AM EDTThunderstorm WindDonalsonville, GAA roof was blown off a house. A peanut shed and two mobile homes were damaged. Reported by the Seminole County EMA.

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 nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 87 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 00:00Z on 2002-09-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2002-09-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 96 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1106 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 15, 12:28 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningTAESeminole92 min
Sep 15, 1:04 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningTAEBaker, Early, Miller116 min
Sep 15, 2:37 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningTAEEarly83 min
Sep 15, 3:06 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningTAESeminole114 min
Sep 15, 5:05 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningTAEMiller, Seminole115 min
Sep 14, 10:39 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningTAEWalton81 min
Sep 14, 11:14 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningTAEBay, Calhoun, Jackson, Washington91 min
Sep 15, 12:42 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningTAEJackson78 min
Sep 15, 1:06 AM EDTTornado WarningTAEJackson11 days
Sep 15, 2:05 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningTAEJackson115 min
Sep 15, 2:10 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningTAETaylor2 hr

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Georgia, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.