Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 13, 2000, 6:52 PM CST for Bay County, Jackson County, Washington County, Florida. It was in force for 68 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
- Feb 13, 2000, 6:52 PM CST (00:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2000, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bay County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Washington County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 7:58 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Panama City, FL | A BP service station was destroyed at the intersection of FL Highways 20 and 77 just south of the Bay-Washington County line. 45 homes and one business were damaged, and several mobile homes and vehicles overturned in the Sand Hills subdivision. Numerous downe |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KTAE 140055 SVRTLH FLC005-063-133-140200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 652 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN BAY COUNTY IN FLORIDA JACKSON COUNTY IN FLORIDA WASHINGTON COUNTY IN FLORIDA * UNTIL 800 PM CST * AT 652 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS..MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 800 PM CST... GILBERTS MILL...BETTS COMPASS LAKE...RIDGETOP ALFORD...ROUND LAKE STEELE CITY KYNESVILLE MARIANNA...OAKDALE THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. GOULD NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 8:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jackson | 31 min |
| Feb 13, 10:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 65 min |
| Feb 14, 1:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon | 39 min |
| Feb 14, 2:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon | 42 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.