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Tornado Warning 50, NWS Tallahassee, FL

December 30, 20074 counties in Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 30, 2007, 3:08 PM EST for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 37 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: Dec 30, 2007, 3:08 PM EST (20:08 UTC)
Expired: Dec 30, 2007, 3:45 PM EST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Berrien County, GA, Cook County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Tift County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 157 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 620 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 302009
TORTAE
GAC019-075-155-277-302045-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0050.071230T2008Z-071230T2045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
308 PM EST SUN DEC 30 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BERRIEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL COOK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  SOUTHEASTERN IRWIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF OCILLA...
  TIFT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF TIFTON...

* UNTIL 345 PM EST

* AT 306 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TIFTON...MOVING 
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  ENIGMA BY 320 PM EST...
  ALAPAHA BY 325 PM EST...
  9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OCILLA BY 335 PM 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.

LAT...LON 3152 8306 3145 8313 3141 8313 3136 8309
      3134 8306 3133 8306 3129 8346 3145 8355
      3168 8313
TIME...MOT...LOC 2008Z 245DEG 33KT 3138 8343

$$

9-FOURNIER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 30, 3:05 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Mitchell, Thomas	25 min
Dec 30, 3:37 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Cook	23 min
Dec 30, 3:56 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Berrien, Colquitt, Cook	34 min
Dec 30, 4:26 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Berrien, Cook	19 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.