Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 70, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 24, 2002, 10:55 AM EST for Franklin County, Gulf County, Liberty County, Florida. It was in force for 35 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, 10:55 AM EST (15:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2002, 11:30 AM EST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Liberty County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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, 3.9 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.
030 WFUS52 KTAE 241555 TORTLH FLC037-045-077-241630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1054 AM EST TUE DEC 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FRANKLIN COUNTY IN FLORIDA EASTERN GULF COUNTY IN FLORIDA SOUTHERN LIBERTY COUNTY IN FLORIDA * UNTIL 1130 AM EST(1030 AM CST) * AT 949 AM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF PORT ST. JOE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... OWL LANDING...FORT GADSDEN BY 1100 AM EST... SUMATRA...BON AMI BY 1105 AM EST... KERN...WILMA BY 1110 AM EST... TWIN POLE...CENTRAL CITY BY 1115 AM EST... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME FOR A REINFORCED SHELTER. LAT...LON 3006 8522 2985 8513 2991 8458 3035 8479 .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, 7:46 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes, Washington | 14 min |
| Dec 24, 8:01 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 8:41 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton, Washington | 34 min |
| Dec 24, 8:56 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jackson | 34 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.