Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 16, 2000, 11:16 AM CST for Dale County, Alabama. It was in force for 29 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
- Dec 16, 2000, 11:16 AM CST (17:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2000, 11:45 AM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Dale 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 10:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KTAE 161718 SVRTLH ALC045-161745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1116 AM CST SAT DEC 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DALE COUNTY IN ALABAMA * UNTIL 1145 AM CST... * AT 1116 AM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DALEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... NEWTON...PINCKARD BY 1120 AM CST... MIDLAND CITY...BLACKWELL FIELD A/P BY 1125 AM CST... BROWNS CROSSROADS...MABSON BY 1130 AM CST... SNOW HILL BY 1135 AM CST... ECHO...BELLS CROSSROADS BY 1140 AM CST... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM IN THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOUSE OR BUSINESS IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. A TORNADO WAS REPORTED NEAR GENEVA WITH THIS STAORM APPROXIMATELY 30 MINUTES AGO. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW! & LAT...LON 3130 8577 3128 8553 3133 8543 3162 8543 .END 12-WATSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 10:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva | 44 min |
| Dec 16, 10:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Geneva | 26 min |
| Dec 16, 11:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry | 48 min |
| Dec 16, 1:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Houston | 41 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.