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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 24, 2007Wakulla County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jul 24, 2007, 4:34 PM EDT for Wakulla County, Florida. It was in force for 11 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
Jul 24, 2007, 4:34 PM EDT (20:34 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 2007, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
11 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), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 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 nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 38 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 2007-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 654 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2007-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
654 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
758 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 242035
TORTAE
FLC129-242045-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0034.070724T2034Z-070724T2045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
434 PM EDT TUE JUL 24 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  COASTAL WAKULLA COUNTY IN FLORIDA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...SAINT MARKS...

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 430 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER THE WATER 
  ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF SAINT MARKS...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 25 MPH.

* THE WATERSPOUT WILL BE NEAR...
  SAINT MARKS AND 8 MILES EAST OF CRAWFORDVILLE BY 445 PM EDT...

WATERSPOUTS MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED DAMAGE AS THEY MOVE ONSHORE. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS WATERSPOUT...PLEASE GO TO A SAFE PLACE
IMMEDIATELY.

LAT...LON 2996 8421 3000 8410 3024 8414 3015 8446

$$

FOURNIER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 4:35 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE25 min

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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.