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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 25, 2015, 7:22 PM EST for Franklin County, Gulf County, Liberty 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
- Feb 25, 2015, 7:22 PM EST (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2015, 7:45 PM EST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Liberty County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 6:39 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 483 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 862 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 966 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
425
WFUS52 KTAE 260022
TORTAE
FLC037-045-077-260045-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0006.150226T0022Z-150226T0045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
722 PM EST WED FEB 25 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL FRANKLIN COUNTY IN FLORIDA...
SOUTHWESTERN LIBERTY COUNTY IN FLORIDA...
CENTRAL GULF COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PORT ST. JOE...
* UNTIL 745 PM EST/645 PM CST/
* AT 718 PM EST...A DEVELOPING TORNADO HAS BEEN DETECTED BY THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF PORT ST. JOE...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WHITE
CITY...HONEYVILLE...DALKEITH...HOWARD CREEK...WILLIS LANDING...FORT
GADSDEN...OWENS BRIDGE...NIXON GARDEN...JENSEN PLACE...WILMA...
VILAS...TWIN POLE...SUMATRA...KERN AND CENTRAL CITY.
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 2982 8532 2983 8532 2985 8535 2989 8536
2992 8539 2997 8539 3028 8489 2998 8474
2980 8531
TIME...MOT...LOC 0022Z 243DEG 43KT 2991 8530
$$
25-CAMPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 8:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Leon, Wakulla | 35 min |
| Feb 25, 8:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon, Taylor, Wakulla | 30 min |
| Feb 25, 8:43 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 62 min | |
| Feb 25, 8:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Jefferson, Taylor, Wakulla | 40 min |
| Feb 25, 8:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison, Taylor | 48 min |
| Feb 25, 9:38 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Feb 25, 9:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lafayette, Madison, Taylor | 61 min |
| Feb 25, 10:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lafayette, Madison, Taylor | 66 min |
| Feb 25, 11:15 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Feb 25, 11:20 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Taylor | 115 min |
| Feb 25, 11:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dixie, Lafayette, Madison, Taylor | 63 min |
| Feb 26, 12:35 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dixie, Lafayette | 55 min |
| Feb 26, 1:51 AM EST | Rip Current Statement | TAE | Bay, Gulf, Walton | 17 hr |
| Feb 26, 3:34 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | TAE | 7 hr |
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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.