Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2000, 9:25 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Leon County, Wakulla County, Florida. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2000, 9:25 PM EDT (01:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2000, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Wakulla County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 20 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KTAE 100128 SVRTLH FLC065-073-129-100215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 925 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON COUNTY IN FLORIDA LEON COUNTY IN FLORIDA WAKULLA COUNTY IN FLORIDA * UNTIL 1015 PM EDT * AT 925 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS OVER PERKINS...OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF TALLAHASSEE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... TALLAHASSEE BY 930 PM EDT LAKESIDE...HENRIETTA BY 935 PM EDT WOODVILLE...TALLAHASSEE RGNL A/P BY 940 PM EDT WAKULLA SPRINGS BY 945 PM EDT SHADEVILLE...HILLIARDVILLE BY 950 PM EDT THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. DOWNED TREES AND POWERLINES HAVE BEEN REPORTED ALL OVER TALLAHASSEE WITH THIS STORM. PLEASE GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3053 8374 3050 8428 3023 8467 3014 8404 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, 9:06 PM EDT, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 9:06 PM EDT, 19 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, 8:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon | 59 min |
| Aug 9, 9:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Liberty | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 10:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gulf | 65 min |
| Aug 9, 10:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton, Washington | 63 min |
| Aug 9, 10:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 11:13 PM EDT | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.