Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 11, 2000, 9:12 PM EST for Jefferson County, Florida; Thomas County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 11, 2000, 9:12 PM EST (02:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2000, 9:40 PM EST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson County, FL, Thomas County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 46 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 120210 SVRTLH FLC065-GAC275-120240- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 912 PM EST SAT MAR 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN FLORIDA SOUTHERN THOMAS COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 940 PM EST * AT 912 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTH OF THOMASVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ASHVILLE BY 925 PM EST GOLFBALL HAIL AND EXTENSIVE DAMAGE WAS REPORTED IN GADSDEN COUNTY WITH THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW! & TURNAGE NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 7:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Jackson | 29 min |
| Mar 11, 7:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Liberty | 27 min |
| Mar 11, 8:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden | 22 min |
| Mar 11, 8:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Gadsden | 17 min |
| Mar 11, 8:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon | 36 min |
| Mar 11, 8:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Leon | 28 min |
| Mar 11, 9:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Madison | 27 min |
| Mar 11, 7:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Thomas | 28 min |
| Mar 11, 7:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur | 34 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 |
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.