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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Tallahassee, FL

December 23, 2014Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 23, 2014, 7:00 PM CST for Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 22 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: Dec 23, 2014, 7:00 PM CST (01:00 UTC)
Expired: Dec 23, 2014, 7:22 PM CST
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Gulf County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Dec 23, 2:47 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 509 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 397 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 547 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

069 
WFUS52 KTAE 240100
TORTAE
FLC045-240145-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0049.141224T0100Z-141224T0145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
700 PM CST TUE DEC 23 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GULF COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PORT ST. JOE...

* UNTIL 745 PM CST/845 PM EST/

* AT 659 PM CST...A DEVELOPING TORNADO HAS BEEN DETECTED BY THE
  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PORT ST. JOE...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ST
  JOSEPH STATE PARK...SIMMONS BAYOU...JONES HOMESTEAD...OAK GROVE...
  WARD RIDGE...HIGHLAND VIEW...MILLTOWN...SAINT JOE BEACH...WHITE
  CITY AND DALKEITH.

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 2971 8540 2984 8543 2988 8540 2975 8538
      2978 8531 2981 8531 2992 8539 3009 8530
      2997 8507 2970 8531 2977 8532 2975 8538
      2970 8536 2969 8534 2967 8536 2967 8537
TIME...MOT...LOC 0101Z 218DEG 30KT 2970 8546

$$

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1 follow-up statement

059 
WWUS52 KTAE 240122
SVSTAE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
722 PM CST TUE DEC 23 2014

FLC045-240132-
/O.CAN.KTAE.TO.W.0049.000000T0000Z-141224T0145Z/
GULF FL-
722 PM CST TUE DEC 23 2014

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR GULF COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
TALLAHASSEE AT (8 5 0) 9 4 2 8 8 3 3... OR YOU MAY CONTACT LAW
ENFORCEMENT.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 11 PM CST.

LAT...LON 2971 8540 2984 8543 2988 8540 2975 8538
      2978 8531 2981 8531 2992 8539 3009 8530
      2997 8507 2970 8531 2977 8532 2975 8538
      2970 8536 2969 8534 2967 8536 2967 8537
TIME...MOT...LOC 0122Z 218DEG 30KT 2984 8534

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 23, 6:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Gulf	27 min
Dec 23, 7:34 PM CST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Wakulla	61 hr
Dec 23, 7:40 PM CST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	11 days
Dec 23, 11:28 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		62 min
Dec 24, 12:04 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	TAE	Holmes, Walton	3 hr
Dec 24, 2:13 AM CST	High Surf Advisory	TAE	Bay, Gulf, Walton	25 hr
Dec 24, 2:29 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		31 min
Dec 24, 2:47 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		28 min
Dec 24, 2:49 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		56 min
Dec 24, 2:56 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	3 hr
Dec 24, 3:08 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Washington	22 min
Dec 24, 4:42 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		63 min
Dec 24, 5:02 AM CST	Wind Advisory	TAE	Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson, Lafayette and 4 more	4 hr
Dec 24, 5:59 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Liberty	3 hr
Dec 24, 7:15 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	3 hr
Dec 24, 7:32 AM CST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Walton	29 hr
Dec 24, 7:44 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		61 min
Dec 24, 8:33 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		57 min
Dec 24, 8:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon	44 min
Dec 24, 9:00 AM CST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Holmes, Washington	8 days
Dec 24, 9:00 AM CST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Walton	10 days
Dec 24, 9:27 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		93 min
Dec 24, 10:55 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		95 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.