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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 2, 2006Grady County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jan 2, 2006, 1:06 AM EST for Grady County, Georgia. 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: Jan 2, 2006, 1:06 AM EST (06:06 UTC)
Expired: Jan 2, 2006, 1:30 AM EST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Grady County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:09 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 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 624 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 453 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 020606
TORTAE
GAC131-020630-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0002.060102T0606Z-060102T0630Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
106 AM EST MON JAN 2 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN GRADY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 130 AM EST(1230 AM CST)

* AT 103 AM EST(1203 AM CST)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR ELPINO...OR ABOUT 8 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF PELHAM...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  AKRIDGE AND SPENCE.

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 3106 8434 3091 8426 3092 8415 3103 8415

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 2, 12:41 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Mitchell	34 min
Jan 2, 1:00 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Grady, Thomas	30 min
Jan 2, 1:28 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Thomas	32 min
Jan 2, 11:07 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Decatur, Mitchell	15 min
Jan 2, 2:23 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Lowndes	19 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.