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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 9, 2011Colquitt County, Tift County, Worth County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 9, 2011, 2:17 PM EST for Colquitt County, Tift County, Worth County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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, 2:17 PM EST (19:17 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 2011, 2:45 PM EST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Colquitt County, GA, Tift County, GA, Worth County, GA

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, 9:39 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 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

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The text

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

705 
WFUS52 KTAE 091917
TORTAE
GAC071-277-321-091945-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0007.110309T1917Z-110309T1945Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
217 PM EST WED MAR 9 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL COLQUITT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  TIFT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  SOUTHEASTERN WORTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 245 PM EST

* AT 213 PM EST...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 10 MILES  
  SOUTHWEST OF POULAN...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TY
  TY...OMEGA...PHILLIPSBURG...TIFTON AND UNIONVILLE

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 500 PM EST WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON FOR NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA.

&&

LAT...LON 3155 8345 3136 8343 3135 8344 3133 8346
      3133 8375 3134 8389 3150 8391 3156 8347
TIME...MOT...LOC 1917Z 267DEG 39KT 3140 8382

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 9, 12:04 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Early, Quitman, Randolph	41 min
Mar 9, 12:11 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Clay	15 min
Mar 9, 12:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Early, Lee, Randolph and 1 more	47 min
Mar 9, 1:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Lee, Terrell, Worth	43 min
Mar 9, 2:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Berrien, Irwin, Tift, Turner, Worth	45 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.