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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 29, 2002, 2:54 PM EST for Decatur County, Grady County, Mitchell County, Georgia. It was in force for 13 days. 4 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
- Oct 29, 2002, 2:54 PM EST (19:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 11, 2002, 6:45 AM EST
- In force
- 13 days
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Decatur County, GA, Grady County, GA, Mitchell County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 3:04 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Mt Pleasant, GA | A Decatur-Grady County 911 operator reported downed trees just south of Vada. |
| Oct 29, 3:04 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Vada, GA | A Decatur-Grady County 911 operator reported downed trees just north of Vada. |
| Oct 29, 3:04 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrells Still, GA | A Decatur-Grady County 911 operator reported downed trees southeast of Vada. |
| Oct 29, 4:04 PM EST | Tornado F0 | Pelham, GA | A small tornado briefly touched down and destroyed a warehouse. Several trees and power lines were toppled. Reported by the Mitchell 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 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 12:44 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 7 days |
| Oct 29, 1:14 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 7 days |
| Oct 29, 1:43 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 13 days |
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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.