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Tornado Warning 44, NWS Tallahassee, FL

October 7, 2003Franklin County, Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 7, 2003, 6:53 PM EDT for Franklin County, Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 22 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
Oct 7, 2003, 6:53 PM EDT (22:53 UTC)
Expired
Oct 7, 2003, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
22 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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 nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 86 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2003-10-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1084 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2003-10-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1084 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
748 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 072253
TORTLH
FLC037-045-072315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
652 PM EDT TUE OCT 7 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTER FRANKLIN COUNTY IN FLORIDA
  EASTERN GULF COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT(615 PM CDT)

* AT 550 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF HOWARD CREEK...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF
  APALACHICOLA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 715 PM EDT(615 PM
CDT)...
  HOWARD CREEK...FORT GADSDEN...
  BEVERLY...HAYS PLACE...
  CREELS...

LAT...LON 2996 8501 2997 8519 2975 8500 2994 8477

$$

7-TREXLER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 7, 12:09 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE96 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.