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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Tallahassee, FL

October 29, 2002Bay County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 29, 2002, 12:43 PM CST for Bay County, Florida. It was in force for 13 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
Oct 29, 2002, 12:43 PM CST (18:43 UTC)
Expired
Nov 11, 2002, 5:00 AM CST
In force
13 days
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bay County, FL

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Oct 29, 12:05 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 47 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 2002-10-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 640 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 12:00Z on 2002-10-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
640 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
642 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.3

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The text

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

356 
WFUS52 KTAE 291843
TORTLH
FLC005-291900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1242 PM CST TUE OCT 29 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BAY COUNTY IN FLORIDA

* UNTIL 100 PM CST

* AT 134 PM EST(1234 PM CST) NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A WATERSPOUT MOVING ONSHORE AS A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST 
  OF SAN CARLOS CHACATOS...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF PANAMA CITY BEACH...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  VICKSBURG...SAN CARLOS CHACATOS BY 1250 PM CST...
  RESOTA BEACH...BAYHEAD BY 1255 PM CST...
  MCALLASTER LANDING...MASHBURN BY 100 PM CST...

WATERSPOUTS MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED DAMAGE AS THEY MOVE ONSHORE. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS WATERSPOUT...PLEASE GO TO A SAFE PLACE
IMMEDIATELY.

LAT...LON 3020 8576 3026 8581 3027 8574 3030 8576
          3029 8582 3034 8585 3043 8571 3043 8555
          3032 8548

.END

48-TURNAGE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 29, 11:44 AM CSTTornado WarningTAEBay7 days
Oct 29, 12:14 PM CSTTornado WarningTAEBay7 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.