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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 23, 2008, 5:33 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Florida. It was in force for 27 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, 5:33 PM EDT (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2008, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Jefferson County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 5:24 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 30 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 232133 TORTAE FLC065-232200- /O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0037.080823T2133Z-080823T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 533 PM EDT SAT AUG 23 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTY IN FLORIDA... * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 528 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR WACISSA...OR 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONTICELLO...MOVING NORTH AT 24 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... LLOYD BY 545 PM EDT... 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 1100 PM EDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR CENTRAL FLORIDA AND SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA. LAT...LON 3052 8404 3052 8392 3032 8390 3031 8403 TIME...MOT...LOC 2132Z 177DEG 21KT 3040 8398 $$ 14-MROCZKA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 4:02 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | TAE | Dixie, Lafayette | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 7:05 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | TAE | Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson, Lafayette and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 9:58 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon, Madison, Taylor | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 10:01 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Lafayette and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 10:35 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | TAE | Holmes, Washington | 50 hr |
| Aug 23, 10:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Madison, Taylor | 43 min |
| Aug 23, 11:47 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison, Taylor | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 12:08 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Liberty | 23 hr |
| Aug 23, 12:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gadsden, Leon, Wakulla | 111 min |
| Aug 23, 12:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon, Madison, Taylor | 110 min |
| Aug 23, 2:05 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | TAE | Wakulla | 67 hr |
| Aug 23, 2:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 4:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Wakulla | 25 min |
| Aug 23, 4:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon | 34 min |
| Aug 23, 5:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon, Madison, Taylor, Wakulla | 117 min |
| Aug 23, 6:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jefferson | 24 min |
| Aug 23, 6:50 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | TAE | Leon | 5 days |
| Aug 23, 7:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon | 66 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.