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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 30, 2013Baker County, Colquitt County, Mitchell County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jan 30, 2013, 6:15 PM EST for Baker County, Colquitt County, Mitchell County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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: Jan 30, 2013, 6:15 PM EST (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Jan 30, 2013, 6:45 PM EST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Baker County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Mitchell County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
Jan 30, 6:15 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	Hopeful, GA	POWERLINE AND TREE DOWN ACROSS HIGHWAY 97.

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
Jan 30, 1:19 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr
Jan 30, 5:45 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 89 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: 40 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 165 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 210 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.

425 
WFUS52 KTAE 302315
TORTAE
GAC007-071-205-302345-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0007.130130T2315Z-130130T2345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
615 PM EST WED JAN 30 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL COLQUITT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  SOUTH CENTRAL BAKER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...
  SOUTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 645 PM EST

* AT 613 PM EST...A DEVELOPING TORNADO HAS BEEN DETECTED BY THE
  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAMILLA...OR NEAR
  HOPEFUL...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  PELHAM

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 3132 8388 3114 8385 3107 8426 3108 8443
      3121 8446
TIME...MOT...LOC 2315Z 254DEG 53KT 3114 8436

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 30, 3:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Quitman	47 min
Jan 30, 3:41 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Lee, Terrell	34 min
Jan 30, 4:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Quitman, Randolph	45 min
Jan 30, 4:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Early, Miller and 3 more	61 min
Jan 30, 5:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady, Seminole	54 min
Jan 30, 5:38 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Early	37 min
Jan 30, 5:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Colquitt, Dougherty, Lee, Miller and 5 more	67 min
Jan 30, 5:54 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur, Seminole	36 min
Jan 30, 6:06 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Lee, Terrell, Worth	24 min
Jan 30, 6:09 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Colquitt, Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth	36 min
Jan 30, 6:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady, Thomas	62 min
Jan 30, 6:33 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Lee, Tift, Turner, Worth	27 min
Jan 30, 6:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Lanier and 4 more	54 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.