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Tornado Warning 46, NWS Tallahassee, FL

November 12, 2002Miller County, Seminole County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 2002, 3:47 AM EST for Miller County, Seminole County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 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 12, 2002, 3:47 AM EST (08:47 UTC)
Expired
Dec 24, 2002, 9:45 AM EST
In force
42 days
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Miller County, GA, Seminole County, GA

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Nov 12, 2:40 AM ESTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 87 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 2002-11-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2589 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 2002-11-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 97 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
2589 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.5
Supercell composite
6.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 11, 7:00 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningTAE45 min
Nov 12, 6:08 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEColquitt, Mitchell42 days
Nov 12, 6:08 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEMitchell42 days
Nov 12, 7:27 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEBerrien42 days
Nov 12, 9:21 AM ESTSpecial Marine WarningTAE84 min
Nov 12, 10:38 AM ESTSpecial Marine WarningTAE82 min

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.