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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 20, 2003Berrien County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 20, 2003, 12:17 PM EST for Berrien County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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, 12:17 PM EST (17:17 UTC)
Expired: Mar 20, 2003, 12:45 PM EST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Berrien 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
Mar 20, 8:40 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1287 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 472 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 271 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 305 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.4
Supercell composite: 7.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 201717
TORTLH
GAC019-201745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1217 PM EST THU MAR 20 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL BERRIEN COUNTY IN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1245 PM EST

* AT 1215 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES EAST OF ALAPAHA...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
  NORTH OF NASHVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  ALAPAHA BY 1215 PM EST...

LAT...LON 3139 8331 3126 8316 3130 8309 3147 8320

$$

10-BOLINSKI

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 20, 3:56 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur, Seminole	49 min
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

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.