Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 14, 2000, 2:16 AM EST for Berrien 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 14, 2000, 2:16 AM EST (07:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2000, 3:00 AM EST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Berrien County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 140717 SVRTLH GAC019-140800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 216 AM EST MON FEB 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BERRIEN COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 300 AM EST * AT 216 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 5 MILES SOUTH OF ENIGMA... OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF NASHVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ENIGMA BY 220 AM EST ALAPAHA BY 225 AM EST WEBER...GLADYS BY 230 AM EST A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM...BUT BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS. LAT...LON 3134 8345 3122 8336 3121 8305 3149 8324 GOULD NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 9:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Irwin | 44 min |
| 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, 2:20 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Cook | 25 min |
| Feb 14, 3:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Thomas | 42 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.