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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 1, 2007, 3:21 PM CST for Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 39 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
- Feb 1, 2007, 3:21 PM CST (21:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 1, 2007, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gulf County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 12:52 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 499 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 607 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 012122 TORTAE FLC045-012200- /O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0003.070201T2121Z-070201T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 321 PM CST THU FEB 1 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GULF COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PORT ST. JOE * UNTIL 400 PM CST(500 PM EST) * AT 317 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF PORT ST. JOE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... WHITE CITY BY 430 PM EST... DALKEITH...HOWARD CREEK AND 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HONEYVILLE BY 340 PM 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST THURSDAY EVENING(1000 PM EST THURSDAY EVENING) FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND SOUTHWESTERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST FRIDAY MORNING(100 AM EST FRIDAY MORNING) FOR SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA. LAT...LON 2986 8555 2971 8545 2987 8501 3009 8513 $$ 12-WATSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 1:58 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Feb 1, 2:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Taylor | 23 min |
| Feb 1, 3:56 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 64 min | |
| Feb 1, 4:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Wakulla | 41 min |
| Feb 1, 4:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Franklin | 26 min |
| Feb 1, 4:48 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 117 min | |
| Feb 1, 5:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Madison | 25 min |
| Feb 1, 5:18 PM CST | 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.