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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2011, 5:48 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 27 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
- Mar 26, 2011, 5:48 PM EDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2011, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Lee County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Turner County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 5:54 PM EDT | TORNADO | N Leesburg, GA | BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN CONFIRMED ON THE NORTH AND EAST SIDE OF LEESBURG. PEOPLE REPORTED SEEING DEBRIS CIRCULATING IN THE AIR. MINOR DAMAGE TO LIGHT POLES...TREES AND OUTBUILDINGS. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 1:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 379 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
943
WFUS52 KTAE 262148
TORTAE
GAC177-273-287-321-262215-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0008.110326T2148Z-110326T2215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
548 PM EDT SAT MAR 26 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL TURNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
NORTHWESTERN WORTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
LEE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...
EXTREME EAST CENTRAL TERRELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 615 PM EDT
* AT 543 PM EDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO HAS BEEN DETECTED BY THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEAR LEESBURG...OR 22 MILES SOUTH OF
AMERICUS...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
SCRUTCHINS...STARKSVILLE...MOSSY DELL...PHILEMA...CHOKEE...
OAKFIELD...WORTH...SIBLEY...DAKOTA AND WARWICK.
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 3191 8392 3186 8391 3184 8390 3184 8386
3181 8381 3181 8363 3176 8362 3164 8424
3185 8430 3192 8408 3192 8393
TIME...MOT...LOC 2149Z 255DEG 33KT 3176 8419
$$
85-GIBBSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 12:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Early, Grady, Miller, Mitchell and 1 more | 43 min |
| Mar 26, 1:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Early, Grady, Miller, Mitchell and 1 more | 52 min |
| Mar 26, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 40 min |
| Mar 26, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Decatur, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas | 41 min |
| Mar 26, 2:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Seminole | 64 min |
| Mar 26, 2:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Thomas | 42 min |
| Mar 26, 4:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Lowndes | 41 min |
| Mar 26, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell | 40 min |
| Mar 26, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lowndes | 47 min |
| Mar 26, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lee, Terrell, Turner, Worth | 48 min |
| Mar 26, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Quitman | 28 min |
| Mar 26, 6:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lee, Turner, Worth | 29 min |
| Mar 26, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Quitman | 43 min |
| Mar 26, 6:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Quitman | 35 min |
| Mar 26, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Randolph | 39 min |
| Mar 26, 7:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Randolph, Terrell | 50 min |
| Mar 26, 7:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Terrell | 40 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.