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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 18, 2007, 3:26 PM CDT for Jackson County, Florida; Seminole County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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
- Oct 18, 2007, 3:26 PM CDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2007, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Jackson County, FL, Seminole County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 770 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 182026 TORTAE FLC063-GAC253-182100- /O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0042.071018T2026Z-071018T2100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 326 PM CDT THU OCT 18 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MARIANNA... SEMINOLE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 400 PM CDT/500 PM EDT/ * AT 322 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR MARIANNA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MARIANNA MUNICIPAL AIRPORT BY 335 PM CDT... DELLWOOD AND TWO EGG BY 355 PM CDT... LOVEDALE...PARRAMORE AND HAYNES BY 400 PM CDT... 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 3100 8517 3081 8480 3060 8520 3072 8532 TIME...MOT...LOC 2026Z 231DEG 19KT 3073 8519 $$ 9-FOURNIER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 7:28 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 62 min | |
| Oct 18, 11:28 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 32 min | |
| Oct 18, 12:15 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 60 min | |
| Oct 18, 1:16 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 59 min | |
| Oct 18, 1:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 31 min |
| Oct 18, 1:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 24 min |
| Oct 18, 2:13 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 62 min | |
| Oct 18, 3:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Miller, Seminole | 36 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.