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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2000, 2:55 PM CDT for Bay County, Florida. 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
- Jul 14, 2000, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Bay County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 964 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 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 142008 COR
SVRTLH
FLC005-142030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED TO DROP GULF COUNTY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
255 PM CDT FRI JUL 14 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BAY COUNTY IN FLORIDA
* UNTIL 330 PM CDT
* AT 255 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF WEST
BAY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF LYNN HAVEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 30 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
VICKSBURG BY 300 PM CDT
UPPER GRAND LAGOON...SOUTHPORT BY 305 PM CDT
PANAMA CITY...PRETTY BAYOU BY 310 PM CDT
HILAND PARK...DIREGO PARK BY 315 PM CDT
CALLAWAY...PARKER BY 320 PM CDT
IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARG{E
DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DEADLY
LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
LAT...LON 3043 8577 3030 8592 2991 8549 3008 8530
JAMSKI
NNNNWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 14, 1:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 1:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 240 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000 FORECAST CHALLENGES -- RAIN CHANCES AND HEAT ADVISORY CONDITIONS. --CURRENTLY-- WATER VAPOR IMAGES SHOW SUBSIDENCE SPREADING S OVER MS/AL/GA. 12Z BMX SOUNDING SHOWED PWAT VALUES DOWN TO 1.37" IN ASSOCIATION WITH THIS DRYING. SURFACE DATA SHOW BROAD E-W TROUGH OVER NRN CWA WITH GOOD ISOBAR PACKING AND BRISK WLY WINDS OVER THE COASTAL WATERS. THESE WINDS HAVE FED HIGH THETA-E AIR INTO STRONG...PERSISTENT THUNDERSTORM COMPLEXES OVER OUR COASTAL WATERS MAINLY E OF APALACHICOLA. --FORECAST-- EXTRAPOLATION TAKES LEADING EDGE OF SUBSIDENCE ON W/V IMAGES TO OUR COAST BY 03-04Z. 12Z ETA GENERATES AREA OF PRECIP OVER FL BIG BEND TONIGHT AS ASSOCIATED SURFACE BOUNDARY PUSHES TO COAST. WILL MENTION SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR COASTAL AREAS TONIGHT. LATEST GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES FOR SATURDAY AFTERNOON ARE QUITE HIGH. A FORECAST HIGH AROUND 100F AT TLH COMBINED WITH A DEWPOINT IN THE LOW 70S TRANSLATES INTO A HEAT INDEX OVER 110. WILL LET MIDNIGHT SHIFT DECIDE IF/WHERE A HEAT ADVISORY NEEDS TO BE ISSUED. FOR NOW... WILL MENTION EXPECTED HEAT INDEX VALUES IN ZONES AND ISSUE AN UPDATED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK. SUNDAY LOOKS COOLER AS LOWER THICKNESS VALUES ASSOCIATED WITH STRONG CLOSED UPPER LOW OVER THE ERN USA BEGIN TO SPREAD OVER THE CWA. MARINE - W TPA BUOY SHOWS WINDS DECREASING TO 15 KT RANGE...BUT MODELS PROG CONTINUED TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT THROUGH THE PERIOD. WILL KEEP EXERCISE CAUTION CRITERIA FOR AT LEAST OUTER WATERS. EXPECT GOOD COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER WATERS TONIGHT...TAPERING OFF DURING THE DAY SATURDAY. FIRE WEATHER - HOT TEMPERATURES AND RESULTING LOW RH VALUES JUSTIFY A FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR THE INLAND ZONES OF THE ERN FL PANHANDLE SATURDAY AFTERNOON. EXTENDED (SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY) - MRF STILL WETTEST MEDIUM RANGE MODEL WITH AN UPPER LOW PROGGED TO TRACK W OVER THE CWA. OTHER MODELS LESS OPTIMISTIC...SO WILL KEEP CHANCE POPS INTACT ALONG WITH CLIMO TEMPERATURES. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... TLH 073/098 069/095 21-2 PFN 078/095 078/093 21-2 DHN 073/10T0 073/095 -00- ABY 073/097 071/095 -00- VLD 073/097 072/095 -0-- .TLH... AL...NONE. GA...NONE. FL...FIRE WEATHER WATCH SATURDAY AFTN FOR FLZ007-009>011-013. TJT
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 14, 12:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
105 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0600 PM EAST PELHAM GA WIND DAMAGE
07/13/00 MITCHELL NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN ON HOMES IN A
THREE BnLOCK AREA. REPORTED
BY PELHAM JOURNAL
NEWSPAPER.The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Liberty | 24 min |
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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.