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Tornado Watch 94

March 16, 200013 counties in Alabama; 16 counties in Florida; 17 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 16, 2000, 8:15 AM CST for 13 counties in Alabama; 16 counties in Florida; 17 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 16, 2000, 8:15 AM CST (14:15 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 2000, 2:00 PM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 46 counties

Barbour County, AL, Butler County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Pike County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Lee County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Worth County, GA

Warnings issued inside it

10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 16, 10:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay	58 min
Mar 16, 10:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gulf	58 min
Mar 16, 11:01 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Gulf	29 min
Mar 16, 11:01 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay	29 min
Mar 16, 11:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Gulf	42 min
Mar 16, 11:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour, Bullock, Russell	49 min
Mar 16, 12:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	43 min
Mar 16, 12:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden	43 min
Mar 16, 12:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Wakulla	51 min
Mar 16, 12:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin	51 min

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 621 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 494 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 2.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

835 
WWUS9 KMKC 161342
SEL4  
MKC WW 161342
ALZ000-FLZ000-GAZ000-CWZ000-162000-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 94
STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
742 AM CST THU MAR 16 2000

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

   SOUTHEAST ALABAMA                            
   FLORIDA PANHANDLE                           
   SOUTHWEST GEORGIA                            
   COASTAL WATERS                     

EFFECTIVE THIS THURSDAY MORNING AND AFTERNOON FROM 815 AM UNTIL 200
PM CST.

TORNADOES...HAIL TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO
70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 80 STATUTE MILES NORTH AND
SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF PENSACOLA FLORIDA TO 25
MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF MOULTRIE 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.


DISCUSSION...THREAT FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES SHOULD INCREASE THIS
MORNING AS SHORTWAVE TROUGH APPROACHES THE AREA. LATEST VWP DATA
FROM THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE SHOWS SUBSTANTIAL DIRECTIONAL
SHEAR...CONTRIBUTING TO SRH OF 200-300 M2/S2.


AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 1 INCH  EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS.  A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500. 
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 24035.


...VESCIO

293,0833 293,0872 315,0872 315,0833

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 16, 1:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 14 more	6 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Georgia, 2000 Tornado Watches in Florida, 2000 Tornado Watches in Alabama, 2000 Every tornado watch in 2000

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.