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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jan 2, 2006, 10:53 AM CST for Bay County, Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 37 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, 10:53 AM CST (16:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2006, 11:30 AM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bay County, FL, Gulf County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 7:10 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 021655 TORTAE FLC005-045-021730- /O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0004.060102T1653Z-060102T1730Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1153 AM EST MON JAN 2 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BAY COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA NORTHERN GULF COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA * UNTIL 1130 AM CST * AT 1050 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR DAVIS BEACH...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTH OF CALLAWAY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DAVIS BEACH...FARMDALE...ALLANTON AND MEXICO BEACH BY 1100 AM CST (NOON EST)... OVERSTREET BY 1110 AM CST... WETAPPO BY 1120 AM CST... HONEYVILLE AND DALKEITH BY 1130 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3002 8561 2992 8555 2995 8508 3016 8531 $$ 12-WATSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 7:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 29 min |
| Jan 2, 8:41 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Jan 2, 10:40 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Jan 2, 11:51 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Liberty, Wakulla | 40 min |
| Jan 2, 12:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Wakulla | 21 min |
| Jan 2, 1:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Wakulla | 60 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.