Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 67, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 24, 2002, 10:03 AM EST for Cook County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 24, 2002, 10:03 AM EST (15:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2002, 10:30 AM EST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cook County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 10:15 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 EG | Countywide, GA | Numerous downed trees, with some blocking county roads. Reported by the Cook 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 9:20 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 118 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.
537 WFUS52 KTAE 241503 TORTLH GAC075-241530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1003 AM EST TUE DEC 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COOK COUNTY IN GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES ADEL... * UNTIL 1030 AM EST * AT 952 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF SPARKS...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF ADEL...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ADEL...SPARKS BY 1010 AM EST... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME FOR A REINFORCED SHELTER. .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, 9:23 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, 10:17 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.