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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 2, 2006Baker County, Decatur County, Mitchell County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jan 2, 2006, 11:07 AM EST for Baker County, Decatur County, Mitchell County, Georgia. It was in force for 15 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, 11:07 AM EST (16:07 UTC)
Expired: Jan 2, 2006, 11:22 AM EST
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Baker County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Mitchell County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:08 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 2, 8:10 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 1541 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 459 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 215 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 278 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 9.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 021607
TORTAE
GAC007-087-205-021630-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0003.060102T1607Z-060102T1630Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1107 AM EST MON JAN 2 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN BAKER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NEWTON
  NORTHEASTERN DECATUR COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
  MITCHELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CAMILLA

* UNTIL 1130 AM EST

* AT 1103 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
  RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 24 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  NEWTON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF BAINBRIDGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  NEWTON BY 1125 AM EST...
  CAMILLA BY 1130 AM 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.

LAT...LON 3103 8458 3099 8455 3118 8403 3138 8433

$$

9-FOURNIER

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KTAE 021622
SVSTAE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1121 AM EST MON JAN 2 2006

GAC007-087-205-021631-
/O.CAN.KTAE.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-060102T1630Z/
DECATUR GA-MITCHELL GA-BAKER GA-
1121 AM EST MON JAN 2 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN BAKER...MITCHELL AND NORTHEASTERN
DECATUR COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

AT 1120 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THAT THE STORM PRODUCING THE POSSIBLE TORNADO HAD WEAKENED. THIS
STORM WILL STILL CAUSE FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN AS
IT MOVES RAPIDLY TOWARD THE NORTHEAST.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 3103 8458 3099 8455 3118 8403 3138 8433

$$

9-FOURNIER

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, 1:06 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Grady	24 min
Jan 2, 1:28 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Thomas	32 min
Jan 2, 2:23 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Lowndes	19 min

Nearby

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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.