Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 49, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 12, 2002, 7:27 AM EST for Berrien 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, 7:27 AM EST (12:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2002, 10:30 AM EST
- In force
- 42 days
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Berrien County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 10:10 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 EG | Countywide, GA | Downed trees and power lines reported by the Ben Hill County Sheriff. |
| Dec 24, 10:10 AM EST | Tornado F1 | Ocilla, GA | A small tornado briefly touched town which destroyed a mobile home, damaged several barns and uprooted trees. The tornado also hit a mobile home industrial park, where a dozen homes were severely damaged. Reported by the Irwin County Sheriff. |
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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 2355 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 469 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
103 WFUS52 KTAE 121227 TORTLH GAC019-121245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 729 AM EST TUE NOV 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL BERRIEN COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 745 AM EST * AT 726 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GLORY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF NASHVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... GLORY BY 735 AM EST... THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION-TAKE COVER NOW THIS TORNADO IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING EXTREME DAMAGE. LAT...LON 3135 8320 3129 8317 3139 8279 3155 8285 .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, 6:08 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Mitchell | 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.