Preliminary Report on Enterprise Tornado

From the National Weather Service in Tallahassee:

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT…CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
926 PM EST FRI MAR 02 2007

..TIME… …EVENT… …CITY LOCATION… …LAT.LON…
..DATE… ….MAG…. ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. …SOURCE….
..REMARKS..

0210 PM TORNADO ENTERPRISE 31.31N 85.85W
03/01/2007 F3 COFFEE AL NWS STORM SURVEY

*** 9 FATAL *** 8 KILLED IN SCHOOL WHEN CONCRETE WALL
COLLAPSED IN HALLWAY. TORNADO PATH APPROX. 200 YARDS WIDE
AND 10 MILES LONG. INFO BASED ON STORM SURVEY BY WCM ON
3/2/07.

James mentioned this a few times, but since I have time and just moved from the area I’ll expand. I know it sounds odd that an Alabama county is covered by a weather service office in Florida. Many counties in Southeast Alabama are covered by the NWS in Tallahassee. They cover Henry, Houston, Coffee (where Enterprise is), Dale, and Geneva counties. When I was working in Dothan I had to work with 3 weather service offices; Mobile, Birmingham, and Tallahassee. Mobile covered Covington and Crenshaw in my viewing area. Birmingham covered Pike and Barbour, while Tallahassee took the rest along with my NW Florida and Georgia counties. It was certainly interesting during severe weather when a storm covered by one office was about to move into a county next door covered by a different office. They all handled it well and warnings moved smoothly from one county to another when needed.

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