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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jan 4, 2015, 8:12 AM EST for Clay County, Early County, Georgia; Henry County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 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 4, 2015, 8:12 AM EST (13:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 4, 2015, 8:45 AM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Henry County, AL, Clay County, GA, Early County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:13 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 4, 8:39 AM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 4 E Fort Gaines-Clay Ai, GA | TREE DOWN ON HIGHWAY 37 |
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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 484 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
498 WFUS52 KTAE 041312 TORTAE ALC067-GAC061-099-041345- /O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0003.150104T1312Z-150104T1345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 712 AM CST SUN JAN 4 2015 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL HENRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... WESTERN CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FORT GAINES... NORTHWESTERN EARLY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA... * UNTIL 745 AM CST/845 AM EST/ * AT 710 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT GAINES...OR 7 MILES SOUTH OF ABBEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SHORTERVILLE...WALTER F. GEORGE LOCK AND DAM...JONES CROSSING...COTTON HILL AND BETHEL. 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 3176 8496 3151 8493 3142 8520 3160 8522 TIME...MOT...LOC 1312Z 234DEG 25KT 3148 8519 $$ 38-GODSEY
1 follow-up statement
015
WWUS52 KTAE 041334
SVSTAE
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
834 AM EST SUN JAN 4 2015
ALC067-041344-
/O.CAN.KTAE.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-150104T1345Z/
HENRY AL-
734 AM CST SUN JAN 4 2015
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL HENRY COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
LAT...LON 3176 8496 3151 8493 3146 8507 3154 8504
3157 8506 3162 8506 3164 8508 3165 8508
3167 8510
TIME...MOT...LOC 1334Z 234DEG 25KT 3156 8499
$$
GAC061-099-041345-
/O.CON.KTAE.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-150104T1345Z/
EARLY GA-CLAY GA-
834 AM EST SUN JAN 4 2015
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 AM EST FOR WESTERN
CLAY AND NORTHWESTERN EARLY COUNTIES...
AT 831 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR FORT GAINES...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FORT
JONES CROSSING...COTTON HILL AND BETHEL
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 3176 8496 3151 8493 3146 8507 3154 8504
3157 8506 3162 8506 3164 8508 3165 8508
3167 8510
TIME...MOT...LOC 1334Z 234DEG 25KT 3156 8499
$$
38-GODSEYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 8:37 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Randolph | 38 min |
| Jan 4, 9:15 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun, Randolph, Terrell | 45 min |
| Jan 4, 9:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Miller, Seminole | 46 min |
| Jan 4, 9:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Mitchell | 50 min |
| Jan 4, 10:24 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Mitchell | 36 min |
| Jan 4, 10:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Worth | 37 min |
| Jan 4, 11:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Tift, Worth | 63 min |
| Jan 4, 12:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Lowndes | 41 min |
| Jan 4, 7:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale, Houston | 27 min |
| Jan 4, 7:23 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dale | 37 min |
| Jan 4, 7:38 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry | 37 min |
Nearby
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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.