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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 23, 2008, 4:35 PM EDT for Berrien County, Cook County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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
- Aug 23, 2008, 4:35 PM EDT (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2008, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Berrien County, GA, Cook County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 232035 TORTAE GAC019-075-232100- /O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0033.080823T2035Z-080823T2100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 435 PM EDT SAT AUG 23 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN BERRIEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... NORTHEASTERN COOK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... * UNTIL 500 PM EDT * AT 433 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LENOX...OR NEAR ADEL... MOVING NORTHWEST AT 43 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... LENOX BY 450 PM EDT... 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. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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. LAT...LON 3130 8351 3136 8337 3108 8327 3107 8333 TIME...MOT...LOC 2035Z 155DEG 37KT 3117 8336 $$ 38-GODSEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 7:05 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | TAE | Baker, Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Decatur and 8 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 10:01 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | TAE | Baker, Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Decatur and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 10:54 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 4 days |
| Aug 23, 11:13 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Grady, Miller, Mitchell, Thomas | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 1:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Baker, Brooks, Colquitt, Decatur, Grady, Miller and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 4:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Thomas | 117 min |
| Aug 23, 4:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien, Cook, Tift | 34 min |
| Aug 23, 5:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Lanier, Lowndes and 1 more | 113 min |
| Aug 23, 5:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Lee, Worth | 38 min |
| Aug 23, 6:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 6:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Lee, Worth | 116 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.