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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 22, 2000Ben Hill County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2000, 3:25 PM EDT for Ben Hill County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 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
Jun 22, 2000, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2000, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ben Hill County, GA

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 22, 1:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 184 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 646 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -60 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
646 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

958 
WUUS52 KTAE 221925
SVRTLH
GAC017-222015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
325 PM EDT THU JUN 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BEN HILL COUNTY IN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 325 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LIKELY LARGE HAIL 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF    
  WESTWOOD...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF FITZGERALD...MOVING       
  EAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WESTWOOD BY 335 PM EDT
  QUEENSLAND...BOWENS MILL BY 345 PM EDT
  ASHTON BY 410 PM EDT
  RED BLUFF BY 415 PM EDT

THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL.


LAT...LON 3184 8348 3170 8328 3169 8303 3176 8299
          3185 8316

NNNN

GOULD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 6:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEThomas66 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2000Every 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.