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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2011, 8:08 PM EDT for Lee County, Georgia. It was in force for 22 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, 8:08 PM EDT (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2011, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Lee County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 1:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 1048 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 884 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WFUS52 KTAE 270008
TORTAE
GAC177-270030-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0013.110327T0008Z-110327T0030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
808 PM EDT SAT MAR 26 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN LEE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 830 PM EDT
* AT 803 PM EDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO HAS BEEN DETECTED BY THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SMITHVILLE...OR 17
MILES SOUTHWEST OF AMERICUS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
NEYAMI...SCRUTCHINS AND CHOKEE.
TAKE COVER NOW! THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE
TORNADOES. SEEK SHELTER NOW IN A STURDY STRUCTURE ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND OUTSIDE WALLS.
LAT...LON 3184 8395 3182 8398 3177 8429 3179 8429
3179 8426 3183 8426 3187 8430 3188 8434
3191 8434 3192 8433 3192 8401
TIME...MOT...LOC 0007Z 257DEG 27KT 3186 8434
$$
38-GODSEYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 45 min |
| Mar 27, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Cook, Lanier | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Quitman, Randolph | 45 min |
| Mar 27, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, Miller | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early, Miller | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes | 42 min |
| Mar 27, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Early, Miller, Mitchell | 50 min |
| Mar 27, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lanier, Lowndes | 32 min |
| Mar 27, 4:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Miller, Mitchell | 27 min |
| Mar 27, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Lowndes | 40 min |
| Mar 27, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Early, Miller, Seminole | 53 min |
| Mar 27, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early, Miller, Seminole | 43 min |
| Mar 27, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Grady, Miller, Mitchell | 45 min |
| Mar 27, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early, Miller, Seminole | 14 min |
| Mar 27, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 6:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes | 51 min |
| Mar 27, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Lowndes | 41 min |
| Mar 27, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Thomas | 30 min |
| Mar 27, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes | 43 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.