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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Tallahassee, FL

November 11, 2002Decatur County, Grady County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 11, 2002, 5:25 AM EST for Decatur County, Grady County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 11, 2002, 5:25 AM EST (10:25 UTC)
Expired
Dec 24, 2002, 9:15 AM EST
In force
43 days
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Decatur County, GA, Grady County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 54 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 2002-11-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2181 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2002-11-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 128 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
2181 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.4
Supercell composite
7.3

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 11, 6:16 AM ESTTornado WarningTAERandolph43 days
Nov 11, 7:30 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAE45 min
Nov 11, 4:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAE35 min
Nov 11, 5:08 PM ESTTornado WarningTAEBaker, Miller, Mitchell43 days

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.