Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 56, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 24, 2002, 8:12 AM EST for Early County, Georgia. It was in force for 7 days. 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, 8:12 AM EST (13:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 31, 2002, 12:45 PM EST
- In force
- 7 days
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Early County, GA
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, 6:20 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 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
- 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.
369 WFUS52 KTAE 241312 TORTLH GAC099-241345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 812 AM EST TUE DEC 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN EARLY COUNTY IN GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES BLAKELY... * UNTIL 845 AM EST * AT 807 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLAKELY...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BLAKELY BY 818 AM EST... 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 3146 8505 3128 8508 3128 8468 3150 8485 .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, 7:57 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Clay | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 8:37 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Dougherty, Randolph, Terrell | 23 min |
| Dec 24, 8:54 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lee | 36 min |
| Dec 24, 9:02 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Worth | 43 min |
| Dec 24, 9:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 48 min | |
| Dec 24, 9:23 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady | 52 min |
| Dec 24, 9:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Tift, Turner | 41 min |
| Dec 24, 9:43 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Irwin | 47 min |
| Dec 24, 9:49 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks, Thomas | 41 min |
| Dec 24, 10:01 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien | 29 min |
| Dec 24, 10:03 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Cook | 27 min |
| Dec 24, 10:17 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 28 min |
| Dec 24, 10:19 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lanier | 26 min |
| Dec 24, 12:26 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr |
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.