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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 26, 2011Terrell County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2011, 7:35 PM EDT for Terrell County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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: Mar 26, 2011, 7:35 PM EDT (23:35 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2011, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Terrell 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
Mar 26, 1:15 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 379 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

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

005 
WFUS52 KTAE 262335
TORTAE
GAC273-270015-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0012.110326T2335Z-110327T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
735 PM EDT SAT MAR 26 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN TERRELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 730 PM EDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO HAS BEEN DETECTED BY THE
  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 14 MILES WEST OF DAWSON...OR 16 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF LUMPKIN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  CHAMBLISS...GRAVES...PARROTT...YEOMANS...OAKVILLE...PLEASANT
  HILL...BRONWOOD...BRIDGES CROSSROAD AND OLIVERS MILL.

TAKE COVER NOW! THIS IS A DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION! 
A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND! MOVE TO A HALLWAY OR CLOSET 
ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND 
OUTSIDE WALLS.

LAT...LON 3187 8433 3187 8430 3183 8426 3179 8426
      3179 8429 3174 8430 3177 8456 3193 8456
      3193 8446 3196 8445 3196 8443
TIME...MOT...LOC 2333Z 273DEG 25KT 3184 8464

$$

38-GODSEY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 26, 12:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Decatur, Early, Grady, Miller, Mitchell and 1 more	43 min
Mar 26, 1:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Decatur, Early, Grady, Miller, Mitchell and 1 more	52 min
Mar 26, 2:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Grady, Thomas	40 min
Mar 26, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Decatur, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas	41 min
Mar 26, 2:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Seminole	64 min
Mar 26, 2:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Thomas	42 min
Mar 26, 4:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	41 min
Mar 26, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell	40 min
Mar 26, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lowndes	47 min
Mar 26, 5:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lee, Terrell, Turner, Worth	48 min
Mar 26, 5:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Lee, Terrell, Turner, Worth	27 min
Mar 26, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Quitman	28 min
Mar 26, 6:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Lee, Turner, Worth	29 min
Mar 26, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Quitman	43 min
Mar 26, 6:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Quitman	35 min
Mar 26, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Randolph	39 min
Mar 26, 7:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Randolph, Terrell	50 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.