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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 5, 2002, 9:27 PM EST for Colquitt County, Mitchell County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 days. 2 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
- Nov 5, 2002, 9:27 PM EST (02:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2002, 9:00 AM EST
- In force
- 48 days
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Colquitt County, GA, Mitchell County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 9:27 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Norman Park, GA | Dime size hail reported by the public. |
| Nov 12, 3:00 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Camilla, GA | Strong winds severely damaged the cotton crop on a farm located along State Road 37 near the Mitchell-Colquitt County line. Reported by the Camilla Enterprise. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 6:50 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 1165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 354 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 9.7
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 8:47 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady | 48 days |
| Nov 5, 8:47 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur | 48 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.