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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Tallahassee, FL

February 19, 2009Lanier County, Lowndes County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 19, 2009, 2:19 AM EST for Lanier County, Lowndes County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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 19, 2009, 2:19 AM EST (07:19 UTC)
Expired: Feb 19, 2009, 2:45 AM EST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Lanier County, GA, Lowndes County, GA

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, 10:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Feb 19, 1:58 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 190719
TORTAE
GAC173-185-190745-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0008.090219T0719Z-090219T0745Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
219 AM EST THU FEB 19 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN LANIER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LAKELAND...
  NORTHEASTERN LOWNDES COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 245 AM EST

* AT 214 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR MOODY AFB...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  VALDOSTA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  STOCKTON BY 225 AM EST...
  GREENWOOD BY 230 AM EST...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
PENNY SIZE HAIL 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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM EST THURSDAY MORNING 
FOR NORTH FLORIDA AND SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA.

LAT...LON 3087 8301 3086 8301 3087 8304 3086 8310
      3086 8317 3102 8324 3109 8298 3106 8296
      3087 8297
TIME...MOT...LOC 0718Z 264DEG 35KT 3092 8310

$$

38-GODSEY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 18, 11:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Seminole	45 min
Feb 18, 11:50 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Seminole	25 min
Feb 19, 12:22 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur	23 min
Feb 19, 12:31 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Decatur, Grady, Thomas	44 min
Feb 19, 12:40 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Grady	35 min
Feb 19, 12:56 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Grady, Thomas	49 min
Feb 19, 1:20 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Brooks	40 min
Feb 19, 1:49 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Lanier, Lowndes	41 min
Feb 19, 2:07 AM EST	Lake Wind Advisory	TAE	Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more	16 hr
Feb 19, 9:08 AM EST	Red Flag Warning	TAE	Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more	34 hr
Feb 19, 2:49 PM EST	Fire Weather Watch	TAE	Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more	38 hr

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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.