Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jan 5, 2007, 3:11 PM EST for Wakulla County, Florida. It was in force for 34 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 5, 2007, 3:11 PM EST (20:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2007, 3:45 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wakulla County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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 5, 8:21 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 501 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 468 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 052011 TORTAE FLC129-052045- /O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0001.070105T2011Z-070105T2045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 311 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN WAKULLA COUNTY IN FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SAINT MARKS * UNTIL 345 PM EST * AT 307 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SAINT MARKS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SAINT MARKS BY 330 PM EST... RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8833. OR...YOU MAY CONTACT THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EST FRIDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND SOUTHWESTERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EST FRIDAY EVENING FOR FLORIDA AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA. LAT...LON 3002 8434 2997 8421 3019 8408 3026 8425 $$ 22-BARRY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 7:17 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 58 min | |
| Jan 5, 8:23 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 67 min | |
| Jan 5, 1:48 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 117 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.