Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 14, 2000, 3:03 AM EST for Jefferson County, Leon County, Florida; Thomas County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 14, 2000, 3:03 AM EST (08:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2000, 3:45 AM EST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Thomas County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:06 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 3:05 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Tallahassee, FL | Large trees fell on an office building. Reported by the Tallahassee Democrat. |
| Feb 14, 3:15 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Tallahassee, FL | Chimney blown off a home in Oakfair Plantation subdivision. Some trees and power lines down just south of U.S. Highway 90. Reported by the Tallahassee Democrat. |
| Feb 14, 3:20 AM EST | Hail 0.75 | Thomasville, GA | Dime size hail at GA Highway 19 and Macmillan Road. Reported by the Thomas County Sheriff. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 11:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 33 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 140805 SVRTLH FLC065-073-GAC275-140845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 303 AM EST MON FEB 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON COUNTY IN FLORIDA LEON COUNTY IN FLORIDA THOMAS COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 345 AM EST * AT 303 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 4 MILES NORTH OF MICCOSUKEE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF THOMASVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... THOMASVILLE...METCALF BY 305 AM EST NEWARK...JARROTT BY 310 AM EST MONTICELLO...MONTIVILLA BY 315 AM EST BOSTON...EVERETT BY 320 AM EST THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. 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. GOULD NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 7:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Jackson, Washington | 68 min |
| Feb 13, 9:59 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jackson | 31 min |
| Feb 13, 11:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 65 min |
| Feb 14, 2:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon | 39 min |
| 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 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, 2:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien | 44 min |
| Feb 14, 2:20 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Cook | 25 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.