Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 9, 2000, 9:46 AM CST for Dale County, Henry County, Houston County, Alabama. 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
- Nov 9, 2000, 9:46 AM CST (15:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 2000, 10:30 AM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Dale County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 4:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KTAE 091547 SVRTLH ALC045-067-069-091630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 946 AM CST THU NOV 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN DALE COUNTY IN ALABAMA SOUTHERN HENRY COUNTY IN ALABAMA NORTHWESTERN HOUSTON COUNTY IN ALABAMA * UNTIL 1030 AM CST... * AT 946 AM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF W. MAIN/BRANNON STAND RD IN DOTHAN...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DALEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PINCKARD...W. MAIN/BRANNON STAND RD BY 950 AM CST... KINSEY...SYLVAN GROVE BY 955 AM CST... HEADLAND...NEWVILLE BY 1000 AM CST... CAPPS...TUMBLETON BY 1005 AM CST... HALEBURG BY 1010 AM CST... ABBEVILLE BY 1015 AM CST... 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. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS DAMAGING WINDS. LAT...LON 3122 8570 3123 8544 3143 8509 3161 8529 .END 12-WATSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 6:26 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Geneva | 34 min |
| Nov 9, 6:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dale, Houston | 45 min |
| Nov 9, 7:03 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Houston | 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.