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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 2, 2007, 1:56 AM EST for Brooks County, Thomas County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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
- Mar 2, 2007, 1:56 AM EST (06:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2007, 2:20 AM EST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Brooks County, GA, Thomas County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 8:39 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 362 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 444 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 020656 TORTAE GAC027-275-020730- /O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0019.070302T0656Z-070302T0730Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 156 AM EST FRI MAR 2 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BROOKS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHERN THOMAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 230 AM EST * AT 154 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOSTON...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF THOMASVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BOSTON BY 205 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 3072 8398 3067 8393 3091 8341 3109 8356 $$ 9-FOURNIER
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS52 KTAE 020713 SVSTAE SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 213 AM EST FRI MAR 2 2007 GAC275-020723- /O.CAN.KTAE.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-070302T0730Z/ THOMAS GA- 213 AM EST FRI MAR 2 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR THOMAS COUNTY IS CANCELLED... RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8833. OR...YOU MAY CONTACT THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM EST FRIDAY MORNING. LAT...LON 3080 8371 3075 8367 3088 8343 3102 8359 $$ GAC027-020730- /O.CON.KTAE.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-070302T0730Z/ BROOKS GA- 213 AM EST FRI MAR 2 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 AM EST FOR NORTHERN BROOKS COUNTY... AT 209 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR DIXIE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF QUITMAN...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 8 MILES SOUTH OF MORVEN BY 220 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 3080 8371 3075 8367 3088 8343 3102 8359 $$ 9-FOURNIER
000 WWUS52 KTAE 020720 SVSTAE SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 220 AM EST FRI MAR 2 2007 GAC027-020730- /O.CAN.KTAE.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-070302T0730Z/ BROOKS GA- 220 AM EST FRI MAR 2 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN BROOKS COUNTY IS CANCELLED... RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8833. OR...YOU MAY CONTACT THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM EST FRIDAY MORNING. LAT...LON 3080 8371 3075 8367 3088 8343 3102 8359 $$ 9-FOURNIER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 8:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Clay, Quitman | 27 min |
| Mar 1, 8:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Randolph | 36 min |
| Mar 1, 10:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Quitman | 65 min |
| Mar 1, 11:38 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Dougherty, Mitchell | 37 min |
| Mar 1, 11:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Dougherty, Mitchell, Tift, Turner, Worth | 49 min |
| Mar 2, 2:25 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lowndes | 35 min |
| Mar 2, 2:20 PM EST | Red Flag Warning | TAE | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more | 29 hr |
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.