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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Apr 5, 2011, 1:49 AM EDT for Lee County, Turner County, Worth County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 5, 2011, 1:49 AM EDT (05:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2011, 2:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Lee County, GA, Turner County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 1:55 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 N Leesburg, GA | 6 WOOD POWER TRANSMISSION POLES 12 TO 14 INCH DIAM SNAPPED AND DOORS BLOWN OUT AT AG RESEARCH CENTER VCNTY US 319. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 10:28 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1916 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 9.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
188
WFUS52 KTAE 050549
TORTAE
GAC177-287-321-050630-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0020.110405T0549Z-110405T0630Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
149 AM EDT TUE APR 5 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN TURNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
NORTHWESTERN WORTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
LEE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 230 AM EDT
* AT 143 AM EDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO HAS BEEN DETECTED BY THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEAR LEESBURG...OR 25 MILES SOUTH OF
AMERICUS...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
STOCKS...MOSSY DELL...PHILEMA...CHOKEE...OAKFIELD...DOLES...
WARWICK...SIBLEY...DAKOTA...WORTH...AMBOY AND REBECCA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! LEAVE MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR SAFER STRUCTURES.
MOVE TO A HALLWAY OR CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND
OUTSIDE WALLS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO
IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
&&
LAT...LON 3186 8393 3184 8386 3181 8381 3181 8362
3186 8361 3185 8348 3177 8345 3176 8346
3163 8414 3162 8422 3192 8424 3192 8393
TIME...MOT...LOC 0549Z 254DEG 41KT 3172 8414
$$
42-DVDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 12:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Quitman, Randolph | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 12:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Randolph, Terrell | 49 min |
| Apr 5, 12:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Early, Randolph, Terrell | 31 min |
| Apr 5, 1:08 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lee, Randolph, Terrell | 52 min |
| Apr 5, 1:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Early, Lee and 4 more | 32 min |
| Apr 5, 1:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 1:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Lee, Terrell, Turner, Worth | 44 min |
| Apr 5, 1:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Decatur, Dougherty, Grady, Lee and 5 more | 32 min |
| Apr 5, 2:17 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Colquitt, Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth | 43 min |
| Apr 5, 2:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Dougherty, Irwin and 4 more | 52 min |
| Apr 5, 2:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Seminole | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 2:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas | 45 min |
| Apr 5, 2:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 46 min |
| Apr 5, 3:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin and 4 more | 39 min |
| Apr 5, 3:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes and 1 more | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 3:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Cook, Irwin, Lanier | 33 min |
| Apr 5, 4:05 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien, Lanier, Lowndes | 25 min |
| Apr 5, 4:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes | 49 min |
| Apr 5, 3:40 PM EDT | Red Flag Warning | TAE | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more | 28 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.