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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 11, 2014Bay County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jan 11, 2014, 9:07 AM CST for Bay County, Florida. It was in force for 23 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: Jan 11, 2014, 9:07 AM CST (15:07 UTC)
Expired: Jan 11, 2014, 9:30 AM CST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Bay County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:07 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 578 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 206 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

109 
WFUS52 KTAE 111507
TORTAE
FLC005-111530-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0001.140111T1507Z-140111T1530Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
907 AM CST SAT JAN 11 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL BAY COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA...

* UNTIL 930 AM CST

* AT 902 AM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR
  GULF LAGOON BEACH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
  INDICATED COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! LEAVE MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR SAFER STRUCTURES.
GET TO THE LOWEST FLOOR AND PUT AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THE
TORNADO AS POSSIBLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3025 8576 3024 8575 3023 8575 3022 8573
      3020 8573 3021 8571 3018 8567 3013 8575
      3019 8583
TIME...MOT...LOC 1507Z 235DEG 39KT 3019 8573

$$

17-GOULD

1 follow-up statement

327 
WWUS52 KTAE 111517
SVSTAE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
917 AM CST SAT JAN 11 2014

FLC005-111528-
/O.CAN.KTAE.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-140111T1530Z/
BAY FL-
917 AM CST SAT JAN 11 2014

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL BAY COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

LAT...LON 3025 8576 3024 8575 3023 8575 3022 8573
      3020 8573 3021 8571 3018 8567 3013 8575
      3019 8583
TIME...MOT...LOC 1518Z 235DEG 35KT 3023 8566

$$

17-GOULD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 11, 6:14 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		46 min
Jan 11, 6:19 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		56 min
Jan 11, 6:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Gulf, Liberty	29 min
Jan 11, 7:01 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden, Liberty	44 min
Jan 11, 7:28 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		62 min
Jan 11, 7:49 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		41 min
Jan 11, 8:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Walton	28 min
Jan 11, 8:35 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		55 min
Jan 11, 9:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	47 min
Jan 11, 10:27 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Liberty, Wakulla	48 min
Jan 11, 11:45 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		60 min
Jan 11, 11:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Leon, Liberty and 1 more	40 min
Jan 11, 11:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Gulf, Liberty, Wakulla	46 min
Jan 11, 12:03 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		117 min
Jan 11, 12:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	38 min
Jan 11, 12:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Lafayette, Madison, Taylor	52 min
Jan 11, 1:13 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Jan 11, 1:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lafayette, Madison, Taylor	47 min
Jan 11, 2:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor	66 min
Jan 11, 3:10 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		35 min
Jan 11, 3:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dixie	26 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.