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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 5, 2007Wakulla County, Florida

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 5, 8:21 AM ESTTornado WatchSPC8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2007-01-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 501 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2007-01-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 196 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 5, 7:17 AM ESTSpecial Marine WarningTAE58 min
Jan 5, 8:23 AM ESTSpecial Marine WarningTAE67 min
Jan 5, 1:48 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningTAE117 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.