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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 9, 2000Jackson County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2000, 8:13 PM CDT for Jackson County, Florida. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 9, 2000, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Jackson County, FL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 9, 8:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, FL	Scattered trees and power lines down. Reported by the Jackson County Floridan.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 95 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: 1311 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1802 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KTAE 100114
SVRTLH
FLC063-100200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
813 PM CDT WED AUG 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  JACKSON COUNTY IN FLORIDA

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 813 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 3 MILES EAST OF BASCOM...OR
  ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DONALSONVILLE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PARRAMORE...LOVEDALE BY 815 PM CDT
  TWO EGG...DELLWOOD BY 820 PM CDT
  GREENWOOD BY 825 PM CDT
  CHIPOLA TERRACE BY 830 PM CDT
  MARIANNA MUNI A/P BY 835 PM CDT
  MARIANNA...OAKDALE BY 850 PM CDT

THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. 
LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE.


LAT...LON 3088 8497 3099 8512 3085 8546 3060 8522

GOULD
NNNN

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, 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 this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 9, 8:06 PM CDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 8:06 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
906 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000

ZONE UPDATE:  BUSY EVENING WITH OVER A DOZEN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNINGS ISSUED ACROSS THE CWFA ALREADY. DAMAGE REPORTS RECEIVED
THUS FAR INCLUDE SEVERAL LARGE TREES DOWN IN SEVERAL COUNTIES IN GA
AS WELL AS DALE CO AL. SEVERE STORMS CURRENTLY TAKING AIM AT
TALLAHASSEE ALONG CONFLUENCE OF OUTFLOWS FROM CONVECTION TO THE N
AND E AS WELL AS THE SEA BREEZE FRONT. HAVE ALREADY UPDATED ZONES A
COUPLE OF TIMES TO RAISE EVENING POPS AND BASICALLY HAVE CATEGORICAL
TO LIKELY IN PLACE FOR THROUGH MIDNIGHT FOR THE DOWNWIND COUNTIES IN
THE FL BIG BEND AND E PANHANDLE.

MARINE: WILL INCLUDE SOME WORDING ABOUT WINDS/SEAS HIGHER IN TSRA.
OTHERWISE...BENIGN CONDITIONS EXPECTED ON THE WATERS AWAY FROM THE
STORMS.

.TLH...
AL...NONE.
GA...NONE.
FL...NONE.

WOOL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 9, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon	59 min
Aug 9, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon, Wakulla	50 min
Aug 9, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Liberty	48 min
Aug 9, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Gulf	65 min
Aug 9, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	63 min
Aug 9, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun	64 min
Aug 9, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Gulf	32 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.