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Tornado Warning 44, NWS Tallahassee, FL

December 24, 2015Randolph County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 24, 2015, 1:43 PM EST for Randolph County, Georgia. It was in force for 17 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 24, 2015, 1:43 PM EST (18:43 UTC)
Expired: Dec 24, 2015, 2:00 PM EST
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.0 in

County Randolph County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:42 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 468 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -144 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 321 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 8.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

074 
WFUS52 KTAE 241843
TORTAE
GAC243-241900-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0044.151224T1843Z-151224T1900Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
143 PM EST THU DEC 24 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 200 PM EST
    
* AT 142 PM EST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF CUTHBERT...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 25 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 TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  NORTHWESTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY.

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 3192 8480 3192 8471 3186 8491 3192 8491
      3192 8481 3193 8480
TIME...MOT...LOC 1842Z 234DEG 21KT 3190 8487 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...0.00IN

$$

15-HARRIGAN

1 follow-up statement

946 
WWUS52 KTAE 241854
SVSTAE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
154 PM EST THU DEC 24 2015

GAC243-241904-
/O.EXP.KTAE.TO.W.0044.000000T0000Z-151224T1900Z/
RANDOLPH GA-
154 PM EST THU DEC 24 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY WILL EXPIRE
AT 200 PM EST...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 3192 8480 3192 8471 3186 8491 3192 8491
      3192 8481 3193 8480
TIME...MOT...LOC 1853Z 234DEG 21KT 3190 8487 

$$

15-HARRIGAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 24, 3:34 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Quitman	25 min
Dec 24, 9:53 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Terrell, Webster	60 hr
Dec 24, 9:55 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Early	11 days
Dec 24, 2:40 PM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Lee	11 days
Dec 24, 4:07 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Lee, Terrell	38 min
Dec 24, 4:26 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Clay, Lee, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell	3 hr
Dec 24, 6:22 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Lee, Terrell	113 min
Dec 24, 6:42 PM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Clay	10 days

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.