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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 20, 2003, 3:56 AM EST for Decatur County, Seminole County, Georgia; Jackson County, Florida. It was in force for 49 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
- Mar 20, 2003, 3:56 AM EST (08:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2003, 4:45 AM EST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Jackson County, FL, Decatur County, GA, Seminole County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 10:25 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 20, 3:40 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 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
- 1137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
774
WFUS52 KTAE 200856
TORTLH
FLC063-GAC087-253-200945-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
355 AM EST THU MAR 20 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY IN FLORIDA
DECATUR COUNTY IN GEORGIA
THIS INCLUDES BAINBRIDGE...
SEMINOLE COUNTY IN GEORGIA
THIS INCLUDES DONALSONVILLE...
* UNTIL 445 AM EST (345 AM CST)
* AT 248 AM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
DEVELOPING TORNADO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DONALSONVILLE...OR ABOUT
11 MILES EAST OF MARIANNA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
DONALSONVILLE BY 410 AM EST...
WEST BAINBRIDGE BY 420 AM EST...
BAINBRIDGE BY 425 AM EST...
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME FOR
A REINFORCED SHELTER.
LAT...LON 3079 8513 3063 8502 3089 8452 3106 8464
3105 8495
$$
17-GOULDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 4:47 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Mitchell | 43 min |
| Mar 20, 5:31 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Worth | 44 min |
| Mar 20, 11:37 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Cook | 23 min |
| Mar 20, 11:53 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien | 22 min |
| Mar 20, 12:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien | 28 min |
| Mar 20, 12:15 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 45 min |
| Mar 20, 12:51 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 114 min | |
| Mar 20, 2:37 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 38 min |
| Mar 20, 3:19 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Jackson | 41 min |
| Mar 20, 5:44 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Bay | 3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.