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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Tallahassee, FL

February 24, 2016Dougherty County, Lee County, Worth County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2016, 2:03 AM EST for Dougherty County, Lee County, Worth County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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 24, 2016, 2:03 AM EST (07:03 UTC)
Expired: Feb 24, 2016, 2:30 AM EST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

Counties Dougherty County, GA, Lee County, GA, Worth County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:04 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 23, 9:08 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 100 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 605 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

As transmitted.

205 
WFUS52 KTAE 240703
TORTAE
GAC095-177-321-240745-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0018.160224T0703Z-160224T0745Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
203 AM EST WED FEB 24 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN DOUGHERTY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA...
  SOUTHEASTERN LEE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA...
  WEST CENTRAL WORTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 245 AM EST
    
* AT 203 AM EST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR PUTNEY...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...
  ALBANY...EAST ALBANY AND TURNER CITY AROUND 215 AM EST.
  MARINE CORPS LOGISTICS BASE AROUND 220 AM EST.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE RADIUM
SPRINGS...SOUTHWEST GA REGIONAL A/P...SOUTH ALBANY...RED ROCK...
STOCKS...WILLIAMSBURG...ACREE...PHILEMA AND PECAN CITY.

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 3144 8422 3148 8428 3177 8404 3161 8380
TIME...MOT...LOC 0703Z 236DEG 35KT 3149 8420 

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

$$

15-HARRIGAN

1 follow-up statement

083 
WWUS52 KTAE 240730
SVSTAE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
230 AM EST WED FEB 24 2016

GAC095-177-321-240740-
/O.CAN.KTAE.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-160224T0745Z/
DOUGHERTY GA-LEE GA-WORTH GA-
230 AM EST WED FEB 24 2016

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN DOUGHERTY...SOUTHEASTERN LEE AND
WEST CENTRAL WORTH COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM EST FOR SOUTHWESTERN
GEORGIA.

LAT...LON 3144 8422 3148 8428 3177 8404 3161 8380
TIME...MOT...LOC 0728Z 236DEG 35KT 3164 8394 

$$

15-HARRIGAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 23, 11:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Early, Miller, Randolph	51 min
Feb 24, 12:10 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Early, Randolph	25 min
Feb 24, 12:19 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Early, Miller and 2 more	56 min
Feb 24, 12:38 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Clay, Decatur, Early, Miller, Randolph and 1 more	67 min
Feb 24, 12:47 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Seminole	88 min
Feb 24, 12:50 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Lee, Terrell, Worth	25 min
Feb 24, 12:52 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Dougherty, Lee, Terrell, Worth	38 min
Feb 24, 1:10 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Colquitt, Dougherty, Early, Lee and 4 more	65 min
Feb 24, 1:12 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur, Early, Miller, Seminole	48 min
Feb 24, 1:25 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty	35 min
Feb 24, 1:41 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Colquitt, Decatur, Early, Grady, Miller and 2 more	49 min
Feb 24, 1:43 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Early, Miller, Mitchell	31 min
Feb 24, 1:48 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Turner	27 min
Feb 24, 1:49 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady, Seminole	86 min
Feb 24, 2:09 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth	20 min
Feb 24, 2:12 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Ben Hill, Calhoun, Colquitt, Dougherty, Early and 6 more	63 min
Feb 24, 2:21 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Colquitt, Decatur, Grady, Miller, Mitchell and 1 more	54 min
Feb 24, 2:42 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Dougherty, Lee, Turner, Worth	29 min
Feb 24, 2:43 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Grady	32 min
Feb 24, 2:59 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas	46 min
Feb 24, 3:12 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Turner	19 min
Feb 24, 3:37 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Lowndes, Thomas	53 min
Feb 24, 3:54 AM EST	Wind Advisory	TAE	Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more	14 hr
Feb 24, 4:29 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Irwin, Tift	27 min
Feb 24, 4:42 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes	48 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.