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Tornado Warning 62, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 24, 2002, 9:23 AM EST for Decatur County, Grady County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 min. 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, 9:23 AM EST (14:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2002, 10:15 AM EST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Decatur County, GA, Grady County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:24 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, 6:20 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 57 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.
004 WFUS52 KTAE 241423 TORTLH GAC087-131-241515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 923 AM EST TUE DEC 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DECATUR COUNTY IN GEORGIA GRADY COUNTY IN GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES CAIRO... * UNTIL 1015 AM EST * AT 919 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF WHIGHAM...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF BAINBRIDGE...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... WHIGHAM BY 930 AM EST... CAIRO BY 940 AM EST... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME FOR A REINFORCED SHELTER. LAT...LON 3100 8458 3077 8454 3072 8410 3106 8413 .END 17-GOULD
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, 8:12 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early | 7 days |
| 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, 9:34 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 |
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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.