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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 11, 2000, 7:11 PM EST for Decatur County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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, 7:11 PM EST (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2000, 7:45 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Decatur County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 1584 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KTAE 120012 SVRTLH GAC087-120045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 711 PM EST SAT MAR 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DECATUR COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 745 PM EST * AT 711 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF HALES LANDING...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF BAINBRIDGE... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 745 PM EST... DECATUR COUNTY AIRPORT...HALES LANDING BAINBRIDGE...WEST BAINBRIDGE CLIMAX...SURF THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FR`OM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3097 8468 3079 8468 3074 8439 3102 8438 VOLKMER NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 7:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Thomas | 28 min |
| Mar 11, 7:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks | 32 min |
| Mar 11, 8:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 32 min |
| Mar 11, 8:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Lanier | 44 min |
| Mar 11, 9:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Thomas | 28 min |
| Mar 11, 9:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lowndes | 27 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.