Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 2000, 6:04 AM EST for Gadsden County, Leon County, Florida. It was in force for 41 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 24, 2000, 6:04 AM EST (11:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 2000, 6:45 AM EST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gadsden County, FL, Leon County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:04 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 6:15 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, FL | The Gadsden County S.O. reported numerous trees and power lines down with scattered power outages south of Interstate 10. |
| Jan 24, 6:30 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Tallahassee, FL | A two-story wood-brick frame home sustained extensive damage when three large pine trees were blowninto the second floor bedrooms. A one-story brick home was damaged by a fallen tree. The lone resident suffered minor head injuries and was released. Numerou |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 4:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 927 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTAE 241108 SVRTLH FLC039-073-241145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 604 AM EST MON JAN 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GADSDEN COUNTY IN FLORIDA LEON COUNTY IN FLORIDA * UNTIL 645 AM EST * AT 604 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 16 MILES SOUTH OF BAINBRIDGE TO 23 MILES WEST OF TALLAHASSEE TO 29 MILES WEST OF TALLAHASSEE..MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORMS THROUGH 645 AM EST... GREENSBORO...JUNIPER GRETNA DOUGLAS CITY...SAWDUST QUINCY...QUINCY A/P BRANCHVILLE...WETUMPKA JAMIESON...LITTMAN THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS DAMAGING WINDS. LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. WOOL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 4:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Washington | 50 min |
| Jan 24, 4:56 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun | 34 min |
| Jan 24, 5:31 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gulf | 29 min |
| Jan 24, 7:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Madison, Taylor | 49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.