Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 21, 2007, 5:26 PM CDT for Holmes County, Florida; Geneva County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 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
- Sep 21, 2007, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2007, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Geneva County, AL, Holmes County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 399 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 212226 TORTAE ALC061-FLC059-212315- /O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0039.070921T2226Z-070921T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 526 PM CDT FRI SEP 21 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN HOLMES COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA... GENEVA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF GENEVA... * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 524 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GENEVA...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... GENEVA BY 545 PM CDT... RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE AT (8 5 0) 9 4 2 8 8 3 3. 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 MIDNIGHT CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND CENTRAL FLORIDA AND SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA. LAT...LON 3112 8604 3119 8580 3097 8572 3093 8587 TIME...MOT...LOC 2226Z 156DEG 17KT 3096 8580 $$ 22-BARRY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 7:15 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Sep 20, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dixie | 48 min |
| Sep 20, 9:09 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 66 min | |
| Sep 20, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin | 40 min |
| Sep 20, 9:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Franklin | 49 min |
| Sep 20, 10:18 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 117 min | |
| Sep 21, 12:09 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Sep 21, 1:13 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Sep 21, 2:19 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 56 min | |
| Sep 21, 5:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Franklin | 39 min |
| Sep 21, 9:58 AM CDT | Coastal Flood Warning | TAE | Franklin, Jefferson, Wakulla | 9 hr |
| Sep 21, 11:49 AM CDT | Flood Watch | TAE | Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Walton | 8 min |
| Sep 21, 11:57 AM CDT | Flood Watch | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 2 more | 12 hr |
| Sep 21, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton | 48 min |
| Sep 21, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes, Washington | 49 min |
| Sep 21, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Wakulla | 43 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Florida, 2007Tornado Warnings in Alabama, 2007Every tornado warning in 2007Tornadoes in 2007
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.