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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 2005, 10:09 AM CST for Coffee County, Alabama; Worth County, Georgia. It was in force for 276 days. 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 27, 2005, 10:09 AM CST (16:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 28, 2005, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 276 days
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Coffee County, AL, Worth 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 27, 9:35 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 253 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 687 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 408 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 497 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 271609 TORTAE ALC031-271645- /O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0025.050327T1609Z-050327T1645Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1009 AM CST SUN MAR 27 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COFFEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA * UNTIL 1045 AM CST * AT 1005 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR NEW BROCKTON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF ENTERPRISE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... VICTORIA BY 1015 AM CST... NEW HOPE BY 1020 AM CST... WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8833. LAT...LON 3143 8604 3131 8590 3139 8582 3163 8585 $$ 7-TREXLER
2 follow-up statements
000 WFUS52 KTAE 282143 TORTAE GAC321-282215- /O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0025.051228T2144Z-051228T2215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 444 PM EST WED DEC 28 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL WORTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SYLVESTER * UNTIL 515 PM EST(415 PM CST) * AT 440 PM EST(340 PM CST)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SYLVESTER... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... SYLVESTER BY 450 PM EST(350 PM CST)... POULAN BY 455 PM EST(355 PM CST)... RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8833. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA UNTIL 8 PM EST. LAT...LON 3154 8399 3140 8399 3151 8371 3167 8382 $$ 23-MCNATT
000 WWUS52 KTAE 282203 SVSTAE SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 502 PM EST WED DEC 28 2005 GAC321-282215- /O.CON.KTAE.TO.W.0025.000000T0000Z-051228T2215Z/ WORTH GA- 502 PM EST WED DEC 28 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM EST FOR CENTRAL WORTH COUNTY... AT 450 PM EST (356 PM CST)...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR GORDY...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SYLVESTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM IS NOW MOVING NEAR SUMNER...OR JUST SOUTH OF SHINGLER. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN TALLAHASSEE. OR YOU CAN ALSO CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE DIRECTLY AT 850-942-8833 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA UNTIL 8 PM EST. LAT...LON 3154 8399 3140 8399 3151 8371 3167 8382 $$ 23-MCNATT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 6:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Houston | 26 min |
| Mar 26, 10:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 47 min |
| Mar 26, 10:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Houston | 277 days |
| Mar 27, 4:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Henry | 41 min |
| Mar 27, 4:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Henry | 52 min |
| Mar 27, 5:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale | 34 min |
| Mar 27, 10:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Henry | 3 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 39 min |
| Mar 27, 1:33 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Henry | 117 min |
| Mar 26, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 30 min |
| Mar 26, 8:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady | 47 min |
| Mar 26, 9:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Colquitt, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas | 38 min |
| Mar 26, 9:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Randolph | 277 days |
| Mar 26, 9:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Lowndes, Thomas | 47 min |
| Mar 26, 10:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lanier, Lowndes | 25 min |
| Mar 27, 2:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Quitman | 41 min |
| Mar 27, 7:43 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Quitman | 276 days |
| Mar 27, 10:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Lee | 4 hr |
| Mar 27, 10:20 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 115 min | |
| Mar 27, 11:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Randolph | 35 min |
| Mar 27, 12:13 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Mar 27, 2:09 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 96 min |
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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.