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Tornado Warning 74, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 2020, 4:52 PM EDT for Colquitt County, Georgia. It was in force for 53 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
- Sep 16, 2020, 4:52 PM EDT (20:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2020, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Colquitt County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 6:55 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 14 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 788 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 397 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted.
886
WFUS52 KTAE 162052
TORTAE
GAC071-162145-
/O.NEW.KTAE.TO.W.0074.200916T2052Z-200916T2145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Tornado Warning
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
452 PM EDT Wed Sep 16 2020
The National Weather Service in Tallahassee has issued a
* Tornado Warning for...
Eastern Colquitt County in south central Georgia...
* Until 545 PM EDT.
* At 452 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located 11 miles west of Adel, moving north at 20 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...
Norman Park around 525 PM EDT.
Omega around 535 PM EDT.
Other locations impacted by this tornadic thunderstorm include Cool
Spring, Pineboro, Ellenton, Berlin, Crosland, Spence Airport and Reed
Bingham State Park.
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 3124 8351 3120 8351 3118 8354 3115 8354
3114 8356 3111 8356 3108 8358 3104 8357
3104 8372 3133 8372 3133 8352 3127 8350
TIME...MOT...LOC 2052Z 191DEG 19KT 3110 8361
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
42-DVDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 12:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 16 hr |
| Sep 16, 12:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady | 95 min |
| Sep 16, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas | 55 min |
| Sep 16, 2:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Early, Lee and 5 more | 12 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 8 hr |
| Sep 16, 4:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Worth | 11 hr |
| Sep 16, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks, Thomas | 30 min |
| Sep 16, 4:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Cook | 27 min |
| Sep 16, 4:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks, Cook, Lowndes | 28 min |
| Sep 16, 5:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks, Colquitt, Thomas | 41 min |
| Sep 16, 5:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Worth | 28 min |
| Sep 16, 5:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Berrien, Cook, Irwin, Tift, Turner | 10 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.