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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 2, 2007, 2:25 AM EST for Brooks County, Lowndes County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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, 2:25 AM EST (07:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2007, 3:00 AM EST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Brooks County, GA, Lowndes County, GA
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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 83 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 020725 TORTAE GAC027-185-020800- /O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0022.070302T0725Z-070302T0800Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 225 AM EST FRI MAR 2 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BROOKS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHWESTERN LOWNDES COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 300 AM EST * AT 222 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EMPRESS...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF MONTICELLO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... EMPRESS BY 235 AM EST... NANKIN BY 240 AM EST... KINDERLOU BY 255 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. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. 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 FOR NORTH FLORIDA AND SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA. LAT...LON 3068 8364 3065 8354 3064 8332 3082 8336 $$ 38-GODSEY
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KTAE 020737 SVSTAE SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 237 AM EST FRI MAR 2 2007 GAC027-185-020800- /O.CON.KTAE.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-070302T0800Z/ LOWNDES GA-BROOKS GA- 237 AM EST FRI MAR 2 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM EST FOR SOUTHEASTERN BROOKS AND SOUTHWESTERN LOWNDES COUNTIES... AT 234 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR EMPRESS...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADISON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CLYATTVILLE BY 255 AM EST... IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8833. OR...YOU MAY CONTACT THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM EST FRIDAY MORNING FOR NORTH FLORIDA AND SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA. LAT...LON 3068 8364 3065 8354 3063 8329 3081 8336 $$ 38-GODSEY
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, 1:56 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks, Thomas | 24 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.