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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 2, 2006, 6:31 PM EST for Jefferson County, Wakulla County, Florida. It was in force for 29 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
- Feb 2, 2006, 6:31 PM EST (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 2006, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Jefferson County, FL, Wakulla County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 5:52 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 38 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3195 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 022332 TORTAE FLC065-129-030000- /O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0013.060202T2331Z-060203T0000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 631 PM EST THU FEB 2 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN FLORIDA SOUTHEASTERN WAKULLA COUNTY IN FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ST. MARKS * UNTIL 700 PM EST * AT 628 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST. MARKS...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF CRAWFORDVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ST. MARKS BY 645 PM EST... 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3001 8444 2992 8432 3008 8398 3027 8407 $$ 8-JAMSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 9:51 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 3 hr | |
| Feb 2, 2:24 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Franklin | 21 min |
| Feb 2, 2:34 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 116 min | |
| Feb 2, 2:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Gulf | 30 min |
| Feb 2, 3:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Taylor | 25 min |
| Feb 2, 3:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gulf, Liberty | 25 min |
| Feb 2, 4:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Wakulla | 26 min |
| Feb 2, 4:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Wakulla | 26 min |
| Feb 2, 4:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon | 37 min |
| Feb 2, 4:44 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Feb 2, 4:55 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Leon | 95 min |
| Feb 2, 5:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison | 37 min |
| Feb 2, 5:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison | 33 min |
| Feb 2, 6:32 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 28 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.