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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Tallahassee, FL

February 3, 2016Baker County, Calhoun County, Miller County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 3, 2016, 2:31 PM EST for Baker County, Calhoun County, Miller County, Georgia. It was in force for 8 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 3, 2016, 2:31 PM EST (19:31 UTC)
Expired: Feb 3, 2016, 2:39 PM EST
In force: 8 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.0 in

Counties Baker County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Miller County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 61 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 588 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 317 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

As transmitted.

197 
WFUS52 KTAE 031931
TORTAE
GAC007-037-201-032000-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0007.160203T1931Z-160203T2000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
231 PM EST WED FEB 3 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN MILLER COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA...
  SOUTH CENTRAL CALHOUN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA...
  NORTHWESTERN BAKER COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 300 PM EST
    
* AT 231 PM EST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR COLQUITT...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
  NORTHEASTERN MILLER...SOUTH CENTRAL CALHOUN AND NORTHWESTERN BAKER
  COUNTIES IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING
  LOCATIONS...PATMOS...BETHANY...IVEYS MILL...HAWKINSTOWN...
  MIMSVILLE...ELMODEL WMA...COOKTOWN AND MILFORD.

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 3116 8463 3120 8466 3149 8455 3134 8429
TIME...MOT...LOC 1931Z 217DEG 23KT 3120 8462 

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

$$

9-FOURNIER

1 follow-up statement

775 
WWUS52 KTAE 031939
SVSTAE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
239 PM EST WED FEB 3 2016

GAC007-037-201-031949-
/O.CAN.KTAE.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-160203T2000Z/
MILLER GA-CALHOUN GA-BAKER GA-
239 PM EST WED FEB 3 2016

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN MILLER...SOUTH CENTRAL
CALHOUN AND NORTHWESTERN BAKER COUNTIES IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA IS
CANCELLED...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. 
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3116 8463 3120 8466 3149 8455 3134 8429
TIME...MOT...LOC 1938Z 217DEG 23KT 3124 8458 

$$

9-FOURNIER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 3, 4:57 AM EST	Flash Flood Watch	TAE	Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more	21 hr
Feb 3, 11:13 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Lee, Randolph, Terrell	47 min
Feb 3, 2:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Dougherty, Miller, Mitchell	10 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.