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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Tallahassee, FL

April 28, 2011Lowndes County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2011, 9:22 AM EDT for Lowndes County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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: Apr 28, 2011, 9:22 AM EDT (13:22 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2011, 9:45 AM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Lowndes County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 3422 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 473 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.0
Supercell composite: 14.5

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The text

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

906 
WFUS52 KTAE 281322
TORTAE
GAC185-281345-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0036.110428T1322Z-110428T1345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
922 AM EDT THU APR 28 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN LOWNDES COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 945 AM EDT

* AT 918 AM EDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO HAS BEEN DETECTED BY THE
  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEAR CLYATTVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO I-75
  AT EXIT 11...I-75 AT EXIT 5...DASHER...TWIN LAKES AND LAKE 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.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

&&

LAT...LON 3080 8310 3080 8312 3079 8313 3063 8313
      3062 8314 3063 8327 3064 8332 3064 8336
      3066 8336 3067 8339 3074 8341 3083 8310
TIME...MOT...LOC 1322Z 265DEG 32KT 3069 8329

$$

38-GODSEY

1 follow-up statement

724 
WWUS52 KTAE 281332
SVSTAE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
932 AM EDT THU APR 28 2011

GAC185-281345-
/O.CON.KTAE.TO.W.0036.000000T0000Z-110428T1345Z/
LOWNDES GA-
932 AM EDT THU APR 28 2011

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 AM EDT FOR SOUTHERN
LOWNDES COUNTY...

AT 929 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR I-75 AT EXIT 5...
MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO LAKE
PARK

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

&&

LAT...LON 3080 8310 3080 8312 3079 8313 3063 8313
      3062 8314 3063 8327 3076 8333 3083 8310
TIME...MOT...LOC 1332Z 265DEG 32KT 3071 8322

$$

38-GODSEY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 5:22 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Seminole	38 min
Apr 28, 5:51 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Seminole	39 min
Apr 28, 6:26 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur, Seminole	34 min
Apr 28, 6:56 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur	49 min
Apr 28, 7:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt, Thomas	39 min
Apr 28, 7:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Thomas	41 min
Apr 28, 7:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Colquitt, Thomas	47 min
Apr 28, 8:19 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Dougherty, Lee, Terrell, Turner, Worth	41 min
Apr 28, 9:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lowndes	47 min
Apr 28, 9:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lowndes	45 min
Apr 28, 10:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes	61 min
Apr 28, 10:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Cook, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas, Tift and 1 more	40 min
Apr 28, 10:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks	49 min
Apr 28, 11:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lanier, Lowndes	32 min
Apr 28, 3:42 PM EDT	Fire Weather Watch	TAE	Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more	12 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.