A severe thunderstorm spawned a weak tornado just northwest of Ozark, AL during the evening.
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The episode as NWS TAE wrote it up.
A severe thunderstorm spawned a weak tornado just northwest of Ozark, AL during the evening.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 7, 7:10 PM CST, 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 810 PM EST SUN JAN 7 2007 .DISCUSSION...SQUALL LINE HAS RECENTLY ENTERED OUR WESTERNMOST ZONES AND WILL STEADILY ADVANCE ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF OUR CWA TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY MONDAY. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EST FOR OUR ALABAMA AND MOST OF OUR GEORGIA ZONES. POPS ARE JUSTIFIABLY HIGH TONIGHT AND WILL UPDATE ZONES TO REMOVE TORNADO WATCH AT 11 PM AND MAKE ADJUSTMENT TO POPS BASED ON LATEST RADAR PRESENTATION AT THAT TIME. && .MARINE...WINDS AND SEAS ARE EXPECTED TO ELEVATE TO SCEC LEVELS AFTER MIDNIGHT. EXPECT ONLY MINOR TWEAKS TO WINDS AND SEAS ON THE UPDATE. && .AVIATION...COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE REGION OVERNIGHT. COASTAL AIRPORTS AS WELL AS TLH WILL HAVE IFR CIGS...WHICH COULD GO DOWN AS LOW AS VLIFR CONDITIONS PRIOR TO APPROACHING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT DHN FIRST BEGINNING IN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO AND GRADUALLY MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THE NIGHT. COLD FRONT WILL FOLLOW THE STORMS MOVING THROUGH DHN AROUND 06Z...AND THROUGH VLD BY 10Z. EXPECT SOME MVFR CLOUDS TO PERSIST BEHIND THE FRONT UNTIL MID TO LATE MORNING AT DHN AND LATE AFTERNOON AT VLD. PLAN ALSO ON SOME GUSTY SURFACE WINDS BEHIND THE FRONT ON MONDAY. && .TAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. GA...NONE. FL...NONE. GMZ...NONE. && AVIATION...WATSON REST OF DISCUSSION...BARRY
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A weak tornado touched down briefly near Marley Mill. It damaged two structures and uprooted several trees on Marley Mill Road.
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