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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Tallahassee, FL

November 2, 2015Early County, Miller County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 2, 2015, 1:08 PM EST for Early County, Miller County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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: Nov 2, 2015, 1:08 PM EST (18:08 UTC)
Expired: Nov 2, 2015, 1:45 PM EST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated

Counties Early County, GA, Miller County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Nov 2, 1:16 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	2 Nnw Enterprise, GA	TREES DOWN AND HOUSE DAMAGE ALONG UNION CHURCH ROAD. SOME VINYL SIDING WAS BLOWN OFF. POSSIBLE TORNADO.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 99 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: 230 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 641 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

694 
WFUS52 KTAE 021808
TORTAE
GAC099-201-021845-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0029.151102T1808Z-151102T1845Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
108 PM EST MON NOV 2 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN EARLY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA...
  NORTHERN MILLER COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 145 PM EST
    
* AT 107 PM EST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR DONALSONVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40
  MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE 
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  COLQUITT AROUND 120 PM EST.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE OLD
DAMASCUS...ENTERPRISE...MACEDONIA...DAMASCUS...HARMONY CHURCH RD/HWY
45...MAYHAW...KILLARNEY AND JETERVILLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3108 8492 3113 8496 3133 8471 3120 8461
TIME...MOT...LOC 1807Z 235DEG 35KT 3113 8491 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75

$$

22-BARRY

1 follow-up statement

369 
WWUS52 KTAE 021838
SVSTAE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
138 PM EST MON NOV 2 2015

GAC099-201-021848-
/O.EXP.KTAE.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-151102T1845Z/
EARLY GA-MILLER GA-
138 PM EST MON NOV 2 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN EARLY AND NORTHERN MILLER
COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 145 PM EST...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EST FOR SOUTHWESTERN
GEORGIA.

LAT...LON 3108 8492 3113 8496 3133 8471 3120 8461
TIME...MOT...LOC 1837Z 235DEG 35KT 3113 8491 

$$

9-FOURNIER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 2, 12:47 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Dougherty, Terrell	12 min
Nov 2, 1:32 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Lee, Terrell	28 min
Nov 2, 4:00 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Ben Hill	15 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.