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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Tallahassee, FL

February 13, 2000Jackson County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 13, 2000, 8:59 PM CST for Jackson County, Florida. It was in force for 31 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
Feb 13, 2000, 8:59 PM CST (02:59 UTC)
Expired
Feb 13, 2000, 9:30 PM CST
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Jackson County, FL

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 13, 5:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 100 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 00:00Z on 2000-02-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 00:00Z on 2000-02-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 195 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 140300
TORTLH
FLC063-140330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
859 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  JACKSON COUNTY IN FLORIDA

* UNTIL 930 PM CST

* AT 854 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF
  MARIANNA...OR ABOUT 18 MILES EAST OF CHIPLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  MARIANNA BY 900 PM CST

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ALSO REPORTS A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN WITH THIS 
STORM NEAR CHIPLEY.
 
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNSTIL MIDNIGHT CST MONDAY MORNING 
FOR ALABAMA AND FLORIDA AND GEORGIA. 

LAT...LON 3088 8540 3062 8517 3078 8493 3099 8517

GOULD
NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 13, 6:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBay, Jackson, Washington68 min
Feb 13, 10:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJackson65 min
Feb 14, 1:36 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEGadsden, Leon39 min
Feb 14, 2:03 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJefferson, Leon42 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.