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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 2002, 6:22 PM CDT for Holmes County, Jackson County, Florida; Geneva County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 days. 3 reports 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 25, 2002, 6:22 PM CDT (23:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 29, 2002, 1:00 PM CST
- In force
- 34 days
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Geneva County, AL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Graceville, FL | A tornado touched down just south of Graceville and moved northwest. Much of the damage occurred on Spruce Road, Shadow Lane and State Highway 77. Four homes were damaged. One barn was destroyed, while the roof from another barn was blown a quarter mile awa |
| Sep 25, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Tendil Crossing, FL | A tornado touched down and damaged the Poplar Springs School. A school bus was also damaged. Several trees were snapped and hurled into the school's roof and east corridor. Reported by the Holmes County EMA. |
| Oct 13, 2:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Greenwood, FL | Nickel size hail reported by the Jackson County Sheriff on State Road 71. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 307 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 8:26 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Sep 25, 3:37 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 113 min | |
| Sep 25, 5:30 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 60 min | |
| Sep 25, 4:35 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 4 hr | |
| Sep 25, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 19 days |
| Sep 25, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 34 days |
| Sep 25, 5:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Walton | 34 days |
Nearby
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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.