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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 3, 2012, 10:36 AM EST for Brooks County, Thomas County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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 3, 2012, 10:36 AM EST (15:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2012, 11:00 AM EST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Brooks County, GA, Thomas County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 10:44 AM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Boston, GA | A FEW TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN AROUND BOSTON. |
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 3, 7:35 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 499 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 472 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
222 WFUS52 KTAE 031536 TORTAE GAC027-275-031600- /O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0024.120303T1536Z-120303T1600Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1036 AM EST SAT MAR 3 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BROOKS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... EAST CENTRAL THOMAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... * UNTIL 1100 AM EST * AT 1033 AM EST...A DEVELOPING TORNADO HAS BEEN DETECTED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 7 MILES WEST OF BOSTON...OR NEAR NEWARK... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO QUITMAN 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 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 3094 8351 3069 8348 3070 8390 3085 8392 TIME...MOT...LOC 1536Z 257DEG 33KT 3077 8387 $$ 22-BARRY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 8:27 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun, Early | 48 min |
| Mar 2, 9:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early | 28 min |
| Mar 2, 9:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Early | 27 min |
| Mar 2, 9:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty | 10 min |
| Mar 2, 10:52 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Dougherty | 38 min |
| Mar 2, 11:26 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Lee | 49 min |
| Mar 3, 12:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Miller | 36 min |
| Mar 3, 12:43 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Baker, Dougherty | 47 min |
| Mar 3, 3:40 AM EST | Flood Watch | TAE | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook and 13 more | 14 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:51 AM EST | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more | 18 hr |
| Mar 3, 7:18 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Miller, Mitchell | 42 min |
| Mar 3, 7:42 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth | 33 min |
| Mar 3, 8:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Early, Miller, Mitchell | 40 min |
| Mar 3, 8:29 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Mitchell | 31 min |
| Mar 3, 9:13 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Irwin, Tift | 32 min |
| Mar 3, 9:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 36 min |
| Mar 3, 9:57 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur | 48 min |
| Mar 3, 10:43 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Thomas | 32 min |
| Mar 3, 10:59 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lowndes | 31 min |
| Mar 3, 11:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Thomas | 32 min |
| Mar 3, 11:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 32 min |
| Mar 3, 11:31 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes | 29 min |
| Mar 3, 11:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 27 min |
| Mar 3, 12:04 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Brooks, Colquitt, Decatur, Grady, Seminole, Thomas | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:16 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Brooks | 29 min |
| Mar 3, 12:23 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lowndes | 37 min |
| Mar 3, 12:34 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Early, Miller, Seminole | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes | 30 min |
| Mar 3, 12:53 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Berrien, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes | 37 min |
| Mar 3, 1:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes, Thomas | 62 min |
| Mar 3, 1:29 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 1:34 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Decatur, Grady, Lanier and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 2:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes, Thomas | 47 min |
| Mar 3, 3:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes | 62 min |
| Mar 3, 4:11 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Lowndes | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 4:29 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes | 83 min |
| Mar 3, 5:38 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | TAE | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Colquitt and 16 more | 10 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.