Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 13, 2000, 9:16 PM EST for Irwin County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 13, 2000, 9:16 PM EST (02:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2000, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Irwin County, GA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 6:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KTAE 140218 SVRTLH GAC155-140300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 916 PM EST SUN FEB 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... IRWIN COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 1000 PM EST * AT 916 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 5 MILES SOUTH OF WATERLOO...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF TIFTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WATERLOO BY 910 PM EST IRWINVILLE...PINETTA BY 920 PM EST MYSTIC BY 925 PM EST OCILLA...FITZGERALD MUNI A/P BY 930 PM mEST HOLT BY 935 PM EST THE MAIN THREATS FROM THIS STORM ARE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND POSSIBLY LARGE HAIL. WATSON NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 9:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur | 59 min |
| Feb 13, 10:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Seminole | 27 min |
| Feb 13, 10:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Seminole | 27 min |
| Feb 13, 10:44 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 46 min |
| Feb 13, 11:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Miller | 42 min |
| Feb 13, 11:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Mitchell | 42 min |
| Feb 13, 11:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 65 min |
| Feb 14, 12:01 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Mitchell, Worth | 44 min |
| Feb 14, 12:04 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Miller | 41 min |
| Feb 14, 12:29 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady | 46 min |
| Feb 14, 12:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Quitman, Randolph | 42 min |
| Feb 14, 12:39 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Mitchell | 51 min |
| Feb 14, 12:59 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Thomas | 46 min |
| Feb 14, 12:59 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Grady | 46 min |
| Feb 14, 1:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Randolph, Terrell | 31 min |
| Feb 14, 1:32 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Cook, Tift | 43 min |
| Feb 14, 1:32 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Worth | 43 min |
| Feb 14, 2:04 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt | 26 min |
| Feb 14, 2:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien | 44 min |
| Feb 14, 2:20 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Cook | 25 min |
| Feb 14, 3:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Thomas | 42 min |
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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.