Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 55, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 24, 2002, 7:01 AM CST for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 24, 2002, 7:01 AM CST (13:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2002, 10:30 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Walton County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 5:20 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 463 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 471 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 585 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
581 WFUS52 KTAE 241301 TORTLH FLC131-241345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 700 AM CST TUE DEC 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN WALTON COUNTY IN FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES SANTA ROSA BEACH... * UNTIL 745 AM CST * AT 755 AM EST (655 AM CST) NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SANTA ROSA BEACH...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WALTON BEACH... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SANTA ROSA BEACH BY 710 AM CST... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME FOR A REINFORCED SHELTER. IF A TORNADO THREATENS YOUR LOCATION GO TO YOUR SAFE ROOM OR TORNADO SHELTER. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A SAFE ROOM OR TORNADO SHELTER...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM OF THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOME. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. LAT...LON 3031 8654 3016 8641 3050 8587 3068 8603 .END 5-MOLLERE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 6:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes, Washington | 14 min |
| Dec 24, 7:41 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton, Washington | 34 min |
| Dec 24, 7:56 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jackson | 34 min |
| Dec 24, 9:55 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gulf, Liberty | 35 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.