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Tornado Warning 56, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 2008, 1:12 AM CDT for Coffee County, Geneva County, Alabama. It was in force for 18 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 26, 2008, 1:12 AM CDT (06:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2008, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Coffee County, AL, Geneva County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 2334 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 637 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 260612 TORTAE ALC031-061-260630- /O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0056.080826T0612Z-080826T0630Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 112 AM CDT TUE AUG 26 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN COFFEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ELBA... EXTREME NORTHWESTERN GENEVA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 130 AM CDT * AT 107 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELBA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES SOUTH OF ELBA BY 130 AM CDT... 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 3146 8605 3123 8597 3113 8619 3127 8619 TIME...MOT...LOC 0612Z 217DEG 31KT 3120 8616 $$ 8-JAMSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee | 24 min |
| Aug 25, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Houston | 40 min |
| Aug 25, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Houston | 39 min |
| Aug 25, 11:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Geneva | 27 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.