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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Tallahassee, FL

April 25, 2003Walton County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Apr 25, 2003, 5:28 AM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 32 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: Apr 25, 2003, 5:28 AM CDT (10:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2003, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Walton County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 192 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1277 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 251028
TORTLH
FLC131-251100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
526 AM CDT FRI APR 25 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN WALTON COUNTY IN FLORIDA

* UNTIL 600 AM CDT

* AT 520 AM CDT EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 4 MILES WEST 
  OF NEW HARMONY...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF CRESTVIEW...MOVING 
  EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS TORNADO WAS SPOTTED AS IT APPROACHED THE      
  OKALOOSA-WALTON COUNTY LINE AT 515 AM...AND DAMAGE WAS REPORTED IN 
  AUBURN IN OKALOOSA COUNTY. 

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  EALUM BY 530 AM CDT...
  CANEY CREEK...CLUSTER SPRINGS BY 535 AM CDT...
  NARROWS...DIXON BY 540 AM CDT...
  PINEY GROVE...WALCAN BY 545 AM CDT...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF
THIS TORNADO...MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE.
OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

LAT...LON 3097 8636 3076 8635 3071 8604 3098 8604

$$

17-GOULD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 4:41 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Walton	49 min
Apr 25, 7:47 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		118 min
Apr 25, 7:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Washington	23 min
Apr 25, 9:45 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		105 min
Apr 25, 10:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Gulf	42 min
Apr 25, 10:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Liberty, Wakulla	33 min
Apr 25, 11:20 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		115 min
Apr 25, 12:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dixie, Taylor	42 min
Apr 25, 1:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Dixie	29 min
Apr 25, 1:08 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		52 min
Apr 25, 2:28 PM CDT	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.