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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2000, 5:10 PM CDT for Henry County, Alabama; Clay County, Quitman County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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 25, 2000, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Henry County, AL, Clay County, GA, Quitman County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 1450 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 836 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KTAE 252211 SVRTLH ALC067-GAC061-239-252245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 610 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN HENRY COUNTY IN ALABAMA NORTHWESTERN CLAY COUNTY IN GEORGIA SOUTHWESTERN QUITMAN COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 645 PM EDT(545 PM CDT) * AT 610 PM EDT(510 PM CDT) NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HATCHER...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GEORGETOWN... MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WATSON CROSSROADS...MOORES CROSSROADS BY 615 PM EDT DAYS CROSSROADS...RICKS PLACE BY 630 PM EDT BAGBY STATE PARK BY 635 PM EDT COATES...DOUBLE BRIDGES BY 545 PM CDT IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. LAT...LON 3178 8491 3191 8505 3176 8531 3158 8514 TURNAGE NNNN
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.