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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 23, 2000Gadsden County, Florida; Decatur County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2000, 3:54 PM EDT for Gadsden County, Florida; Decatur County, Georgia. It was in force for 66 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 23, 2000, 3:54 PM EDT (19:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Gadsden County, FL, Decatur County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 45 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2197 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

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The text

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

232 
WUUS52 KTAE 231955
SVRTLH
FLC039-GAC087-232100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
354 PM EDT FRI JUN 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GADSDEN COUNTY IN FLORIDA
  SOUTHERN DECATUR COUNTY IN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 354 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER RECOVERY...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  BAINBRIDGE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RECOVERY BY 355 PM EDT
  FACEVILLE LANDING BY 400 PM EDT
  HANNATOWN...FACEVILLE BY 405 PM EDT
  FOWLSTOWN BY 410 PM EDT
  GRETNA BY 420 PM EDT
  ATTAPULGUS BY 425 PM EDT

THE MAIN THREATS FROM THIS STORM ARE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 
IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.


LAT...LON 3087 8461 3066 8483 3045 8466 3065 8434

GOULD
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 12:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Franklin	41 min
Jun 23, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson	25 min
Jun 23, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Mitchell	38 min
Jun 23, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Cook	44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2000 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2000 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.