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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 15, 2003Coffee County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 15, 2003, 3:51 PM CST for Coffee County, Alabama. It was in force for 24 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 15, 2003, 3:51 PM CST (21:51 UTC)
Expired
Mar 15, 2003, 4:15 PM CST
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Coffee County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 189 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 2003-03-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 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 2003-03-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 138 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
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-148 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
563 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
155 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 152151
TORTLH
ALC031-152215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
ISSUED BY NWS JACKSONVILLE FL
351 PM CST SAT MAR 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  COFFEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 415 PM CST

* AT 347 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES EAST OF NEW BROCKTON...OR ABOUT 5 MILES
  NORTH OF ENTERPRISE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

THIS IS A EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY DEADLY TORNADO.
EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND GO TO A STURDY BUILDING. MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

LAT...LON 3161 8579 3133 8580 3129 8588 3141 8601
$$

ZIBURA

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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.