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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 2, 2012, 5:40 PM CST for Coffee County, Dale County, Alabama. It was in force for 18 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 2, 2012, 5:40 PM CST (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2012, 5:58 PM CST
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Coffee County, AL, Dale 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 2, 4:37 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 475 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
289 WFUS52 KTAE 022340 TORTAE ALC031-045-030015- /O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0012.120302T2340Z-120303T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 540 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL COFFEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... CENTRAL DALE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 615 PM CST * AT 536 PM CST...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF OZARK...OR NEAR CAMP ALAFLO BSA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO GREATER SALEM CHURCH...HOOPER STAGE FIELD...PLEASANT HILL...DEAN CHURCH ROAD...DILLARD...MARLEY HILL...BLACKWELL FIELD A/P... BARNES...DILL...DALE COUNTY LAKE AND EWELL. 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. && LAT...LON 3159 8561 3140 8556 3137 8588 3148 8589 TIME...MOT...LOC 2341Z 245DEG 26KT 3143 8582 $$ 08-LAMERS
1 follow-up statement
097 WWUS52 KTAE 022358 SVSTAE SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 558 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012 ALC031-045-030008- /O.CAN.KTAE.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-120303T0015Z/ COFFEE AL-DALE AL- 558 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL DALE AND EAST CENTRAL COFFEE COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAS WEAKENED. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND CENTRAL FLORIDA. LAT...LON 3159 8561 3140 8556 3137 8588 3148 8589 TIME...MOT...LOC 2358Z 245DEG 26KT 3148 8569 $$ 08-LAMERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 3:19 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Coffee | 41 min |
| Mar 2, 4:28 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Coffee | 17 min |
| Mar 2, 4:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 32 min |
| Mar 2, 4:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee | 28 min |
| Mar 2, 5:02 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Covington | 28 min |
| Mar 2, 5:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Geneva | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 5:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee | 17 min |
| Mar 2, 5:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Geneva | 28 min |
| Mar 2, 5:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Geneva | 37 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.