Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2000, 5:20 PM CDT for Coffee County, Geneva County, Alabama. It was in force for 40 min. 3 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2000, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Coffee County, AL, Geneva County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 5:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Kinston, AL | Dime size hail reported by the Kinston Police. |
| May 13, 5:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Southwest Portion, AL | Numerous trees down reported by the Coffee County Sheriff. |
| May 13, 6:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Samson, AL | Several trees down reported by the Geneva 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 nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 878 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
046 WUUS52 KTAE 132223 SVRTLH ALC031-061-132300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 520 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COFFEE COUNTY IN ALABAMA WESTERN GENEVA COUNTY IN ALABAMA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 520 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KINSTON... OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF OPP...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LOWERY BY 540 PM CDT KINSTON BY 545 PM CDT ELBA...BY 600 PM CDT HAIL UP TO 1.75 INCHES IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3115 8636 3105 8623 3129 8599 3145 8610 TURNAGE NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 28 min |
| May 13, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva, Houston | 33 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.