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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 1, 2007Coffee County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 2007, 12:10 PM CST for Coffee County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 1, 2007, 12:10 PM CST (18:10 UTC)
Expired: Mar 1, 2007, 12:45 PM CST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Coffee County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 1, 12:10 PM CST	TORNADO 4	Enterprise, AL	* 9 FATAL, 50 INJ * 8 KILLED IN SCHOOL WHEN CONCRETE WALL COLLAPSED IN HALLWAY. FOOTBALL STADIUM COMPLETELY DESTROYED. CARS OVERTURNED. DOWNTOWN HIT HARD WITH DAMAGE AT DIXIE DRIVE AND COLLEGE STREET. SR27, SR88, SR134 IMPASSIBLE DUE TO DOWNED UTILITY LINE

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 1, 9:47 AM CST	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 192 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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -377 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 891 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 322 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 447 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 011811
TORTAE
ALC031-011845-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0008.070301T1810Z-070301T1845Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1210 PM CST THU MAR 1 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN COFFEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ENTERPRISE

* UNTIL 1245 PM CST

* AT 1207 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW BROCKTON...OR ABOUT 17
  MILES SOUTH OF ELBA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  NEW BROCKTON AND 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF ENTERPRISE BY 1230 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 800 PM CST THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND SOUTHWESTERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHWESTERN
GEORGIA.

LAT...LON 3146 8585 3125 8582 3121 8599 3121 8617
      3124 8616 3131 8616 3145 8602 3147 8595
      3147 8586

$$

14-MROCZKA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 1, 10:41 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Coffee	49 min
Mar 1, 11:27 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	48 min
Mar 1, 12:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Geneva	39 min
Mar 1, 12:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Coffee, Geneva	43 min
Mar 1, 1:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Dale	51 min
Mar 1, 1:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Henry	47 min
Mar 1, 1:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Henry	35 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.