Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 2000
Tornado Watch 815
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Dec 16, 2000, 4:00 PM CST for 12 counties in Alabama; Holmes County, Jackson County, Florida; 75 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 16, 2000, 4:00 PM CST (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2000, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 89 counties
Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Grady County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 4:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly | 31 min |
| Dec 16, 4:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dougherty | 30 min |
| Dec 16, 4:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Terrell | 31 min |
| Dec 16, 5:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Pulaski | 23 min |
| Dec 16, 5:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon | 37 min |
| Dec 16, 6:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 55 min |
| Dec 16, 6:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dooly | 37 min |
| Dec 16, 6:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 45 min |
| Dec 16, 6:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 29 min |
| Dec 16, 6:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Pulaski | 28 min |
| Dec 16, 6:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 35 min |
| Dec 16, 6:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 42 min |
| Dec 16, 6:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Worth | 34 min |
| Dec 16, 7:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Laurens | 34 min |
| Dec 16, 7:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Henry, Houston | 50 min |
| Dec 16, 7:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay | 50 min |
| Dec 16, 7:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dodge, Wilcox | 47 min |
| Dec 16, 7:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington | 24 min |
| Dec 16, 8:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens | 26 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
688 WWUS9 KMKC 162158 SEL5 SEL5 MKC WW 162152 ALZ000-GAZ000-170400- URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 815 STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 452 PM EST SAT DEC 16 2000 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN GEORGIA EFFECTIVE THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 500 PM UNTIL 1100 PM EST. TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 95 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF MARIANNA FLORIDA TO 55 MILES NORTH OF MACON GEORGIA. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 809. WATCH NUMBER 809 WILL NOT BE IN EFFECT AFTER 500 PM EST. CONTINUE...WW 810...WW 811...WW 813...WW 814... DISCUSSION...THREAT FOR SUPERCELLS AND TORNADOES LIKELY TO PERSIST AND SPREAD EWD LATER THIS EVENING AS LARGE SCALE TROUGH CONTINUES TO DEEPEN UPSTREAM ACROSS THE LWR MS VLY. EXISTING NNE/SSW CONFLUENCE ZONE NOW OVER WW REGION...AND ADDITIONAL ONE FARTHER W WILL LIKELY REMAIN THE AXES OF STORM INITIATION. TORNADO POTENTIAL WILL PROBABLY BE GREATEST INVOF WEDGE BOUNDARY EDGING SLOWLY N ACROSS CNTRL GA. AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 22045. ...CORFIDI 332,0820 303,0832 303,0864 332,0851
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 10:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 37 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 16, 10:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Coosa, Covington and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 16, 1:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile | 6 hr |
| Dec 16, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, DeKalb, Etowah and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 16, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Calhoun, Chambers and 38 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 16, 5:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 9 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
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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.