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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Apr 5, 2011, 2:17 AM EDT for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 43 min. 2 reports 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, 2:17 AM EDT (06:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2011, 3:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Baker County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Worth County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 2:40 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Moultrie, GA | *** 1 FATAL *** LARGE OAK TREE DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF A ROAD. A CAR RAN INTO IT AND THE DRIVER WAS KILLED. |
| Apr 5, 2:40 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Poulan, GA | NUMEROUS TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN |
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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.
761 WFUS52 KTAE 050617 TORTAE GAC007-071-095-205-321-050700- /O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0021.110405T0617Z-110405T0700Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 217 AM EDT TUE APR 5 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN COLQUITT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... SOUTHERN WORTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... EAST CENTRAL BAKER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA... SOUTHEASTERN DOUGHERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA... EASTERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 300 AM EDT * AT 212 AM EDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO HAS BEEN DETECTED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEAR CAMILLA...OR 55 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CORDELE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO BACONTON...DOERUN...MOULTRIE...SYLVESTER...POULAN AND NORMAN PARK 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 3159 8372 3116 8364 3112 8427 3135 8431 TIME...MOT...LOC 0617Z 260DEG 36KT 3128 8418 $$ 42-DVD
The 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, 1:49 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lee, Turner, Worth | 41 min |
| Apr 5, 1:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Decatur, Dougherty, Grady, Lee and 5 more | 32 min |
| Apr 5, 2:23 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.