Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2009
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 2009, 10:50 PM CST for Jackson County, Florida; Seminole 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
- Feb 18, 2009, 10:50 PM CST (04:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2009, 11:15 PM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Jackson County, FL, Seminole County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 9:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 426 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KTAE 190450
TORTAE
FLC063-GAC253-190515-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0002.090219T0450Z-090219T0515Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1050 PM CST WED FEB 18 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA...
SOUTHERN SEMINOLE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 1115 PM CST/1215 AM EST/
* AT 1047 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR GREENWOOD...OR 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF
MARIANNA...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
TWO EGG...LOVEDALE AND DELLWOOD BY 1055 PM CST...
HAYNES AND PARRAMORE BY 1100 PM CST...
FAIRCHILD AND SEMINOLE STATE PARK BY 1205 AM EST...
DESSER AND SEMINOLE STATE PARK BY 1210 AM EST...
REYNOLDSVILLE BY 1215 AM EST...
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL
UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 70 MPH.
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.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CST
THURSDAY MORNING/500 AM EST THURSDAY MORNING/ FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
AND NORTH FLORIDA AND SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA.
LAT...LON 3099 8475 3098 8475 3082 8478 3078 8481
3078 8483 3076 8486 3078 8518 3090 8524
TIME...MOT...LOC 0449Z 269DEG 41KT 3085 8513
$$
38-GODSEYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 6:51 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 13 hr |
| Feb 18, 9:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton | 34 min |
| Feb 18, 9:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton | 48 min |
| Feb 18, 9:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton | 30 min |
| Feb 18, 10:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Jackson, Washington | 39 min |
| Feb 18, 10:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 45 min |
| Feb 19, 1:07 AM CST | Lake Wind Advisory | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 16 hr |
| Feb 19, 3:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Madison | 22 min |
| Feb 19, 3:41 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 94 min | |
| Feb 19, 4:11 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 94 min | |
| Feb 19, 5:23 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 82 min | |
| Feb 19, 8:08 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 10 hr |
| Feb 19, 8:08 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 34 hr |
| Feb 19, 1:49 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 38 hr |
| Feb 18, 11:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur | 23 min |
| Feb 18, 11:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Decatur, Grady, Thomas | 44 min |
| Feb 18, 11:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Grady | 35 min |
| Feb 18, 11:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 49 min |
| Feb 19, 12:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks | 40 min |
| Feb 19, 12:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lanier, Lowndes | 41 min |
| Feb 19, 1:19 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lanier, Lowndes | 26 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.