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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 7, 2006Seminole County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2006, 1:29 PM EDT for Seminole County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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: May 7, 2006, 1:29 PM EDT (17:29 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2006, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Seminole 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
May 7, 11:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 905 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 534 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 071729
TORTAE
GAC253-071800-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0021.060507T1729Z-060507T1800Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
129 PM EDT SUN MAY 7 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN SEMINOLE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 200 PM EDT

* AT 124 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR IRON CITY...OR ABOUT NEAR 
DONALSONVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHEASTERN SEMINOLE COUNTY AT 140 PM EDT.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
TALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8833.

LAT...LON 3107 8490 3097 8485 3094 8476 3104 8475
      3107 8473

$$

38-GODSEY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 1:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Miller, Seminole	40 min
May 7, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Grady	37 min
May 7, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Thomas	48 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.