Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 11, 2000, 9:18 PM EST for Brooks County, Lowndes County, Georgia; Madison County, Florida. It was in force for 27 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, 9:18 PM EST (02:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2000, 9:45 PM EST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Madison County, FL, Brooks County, GA, Lowndes County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 89 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 120220 SVRTLH FLC079-GAC027-185-120245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 918 PM EST SAT MAR 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MADISON COUNTY IN FLORIDA SOUTHERN BROOKS COUNTY IN GEORGIA SOUTHWESTERN LOWNDES COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 945 PM EST * AT 916 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 12 MILES WEST OF PISCOLA...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THOMASVILLE... MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PISCOLA BY 930 PM EST BADEN...EMPRESS BY 935 PM EST NANKIN...CLYATTVILLE BY 945 PM EST IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGPING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. TURNAGE NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 7:02 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 |
| Mar 11, 9:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Thomas | 28 min |
| 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 |
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.