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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 11, 2000Early County, Georgia; Houston County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 11, 2000, 2:47 PM EST for Early County, Georgia; Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 43 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: Mar 11, 2000, 2:47 PM EST (19:47 UTC)
Expired: Mar 11, 2000, 3:30 PM EST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Houston County, AL, Early County, GA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 11, 12:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 118 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 362 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 790 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KTAE 111948
SVRTLH
ALC069-GAC099-112030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
147 PM CST SAT MAR 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HOUSTON COUNTY IN ALABAMA
  EARLY COUNTY IN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 230 PM CST (330 PM EST)

* AT 147 PM CST (247 PM EST) NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER        
  RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 3 MILES EAST 
  OF LOVE HILL...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOTHAN...MOVING EAST 
  AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 230 PM CST(330 PM
  EST)...
  LOVE HILL...TERRY CROSSROA0DS
  ASHFORD
  PANSEY
  GORDON
  HAYESVILLE LANDING...HILTON

THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL.


LAT...LON 3119 8529 3102 8530 3110 8494 3133 8493

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 11, 1:38 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Seminole	37 min
Mar 11, 2:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady, Mitchell	46 min
Mar 11, 4:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Seminole	38 min
Mar 11, 5:35 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur	25 min
Mar 11, 6:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Grady, Thomas	42 min
Mar 11, 6:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2000 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.