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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 9, 2011, 10:11 AM CST for Coffee County, Geneva County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 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 9, 2011, 10:11 AM CST (16:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2011, 10:45 AM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Coffee County, AL, Geneva County, AL
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 9, 8:39 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 348 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 471 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
268 WFUS52 KTAE 091611 TORTAE ALC031-061-091645- /O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0003.110309T1611Z-110309T1645Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1011 AM CST WED MAR 9 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN COFFEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... NORTHWESTERN GENEVA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 1045 AM CST * AT 1012 AM CST...A DEVELOPING TORNADO HAS BEEN DETECTED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ENTERPRISE...OR 23 MILES WEST OF LOWE ARMY HELIPORT...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO PINEY GROVE...FAIRVIEW...SPEARS...MARVIN CHAPEL...DAMASCUS...GOODMAN... ASBURY...TURNER CROSSROADS...MOUNT PLEASANT...COFFEE SPRINGS... LUCILE...ENTERPRISE MUNICIPAL A/P...BATTENS CROSSROADS... CHANCELLOR...CENTRAL CITY...COOL SPRINGS...KEYTON AND COPPINVILLE. 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 UNTIL 400 PM CST WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND CENTRAL FLORIDA AND SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA. && LAT...LON 3136 8580 3116 8579 3112 8619 3130 8619 TIME...MOT...LOC 1612Z 263DEG 37KT 3122 8609 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 9:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee | 31 min |
| Mar 9, 10:05 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale | 25 min |
| Mar 9, 10:18 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dale | 27 min |
| Mar 9, 10:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva | 38 min |
| Mar 9, 10:47 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dale, Geneva, Houston | 28 min |
| Mar 9, 10:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry | 42 min |
| Mar 9, 11:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Henry | 15 min |
Nearby
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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.