Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 48, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 2002, 6:08 AM EST for Mitchell County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 days. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 12, 2002, 6:08 AM EST (11:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2002, 10:15 AM EST
- In force
- 42 days
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mitchell County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 9:50 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 EG | Tifton, GA | Numerous trees and power lines were down throughout the city. Several trees fell on houses near U.S. Highway 125 north of Tifton. A home lost part of its roof. Reported by Tift County 911. |
| Dec 24, 10:00 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 EG | Countywide, GA | Downed trees and power lines reported by GEMA. |
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 12, 2:40 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 121108 TORTLH GAC071-205-121130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 607 AM EST TUE NOV 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN COLQUITT COUNTY IN GEORGIA SOUTHEASTERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 630 AM EST * AT 600 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF COTTON...OR ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PELHAM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... COTTON BY 610 AM EST... HINSONTON BY 615 AM EST... HARTSFIELD...BAY BY 625 AM EST... FUNSTON BY 630 AM EST... LAT...LON 3113 8414 3108 8406 3119 8382 3132 8396 .END 22-BARRY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 7:00 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 45 min | |
| Nov 12, 3:47 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Miller, Seminole | 42 days |
| Nov 12, 6:08 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Mitchell | 42 days |
| Nov 12, 7:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien | 42 days |
| Nov 12, 9:21 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 84 min | |
| Nov 12, 10:38 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 82 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.