Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 2000, 7:11 AM EST for Madison County, Taylor County, Florida; Lowndes County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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, 7:11 AM EST (12:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 2000, 8:00 AM EST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Madison County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Lowndes County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:10 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, 7:20 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Valdosta, GA | A large oak tree fell onto a second-story apartment building causing minor damage. Thunderstorm windsripped roofs off two office supply buildings causing an estimated $50,000 damage. The Lowndes CountyEM received numerous reports of downed trees, limbs and p |
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 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 573 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -161 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -164 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 241217 SVRTLH FLC079-123-GAC185-241300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 711 AM EST MON JAN 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MADISON COUNTY IN FLORIDA TAYLOR COUNTY IN FLORIDA LOWNDES COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 800 AM EST * AT 711 AM EST THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL REPORTS OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTH OF VALDOSTA TO 29 MILES SOUTH OF QUITMAN TO 34 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TALLAHASSEE..MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORMS THROUGH 800 AM EST... OUSLEY...LOVETT MAYSLAND...BAILEY GREENVILLE...KINDERLOU MOODY AFB...HIGHLAND HEIGHTS MADISON VALDOSTA...WEST VALDOSTA CHASTAIN...LITTLE MIAMI THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS DAMAGING WINDS. & 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, 6:04 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon | 41 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.