Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 14, 2000, 12:59 AM EST for Grady County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 14, 2000, 12:59 AM EST (05:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2000, 1:45 AM EST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grady County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:58 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 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, 6:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Feb 13, 11:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 53 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 WFUS52 KTAE 140602 TORTLH GAC071-131-275-140645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1259 AM EST MON FEB 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COLQUITT COUNTY IN GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES MOULTRIE GRADY COUNTY IN GEORGIA THOMAS COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 145 AM EST * AT 1252 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF MEIGS...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PELHAM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... OCHLOCKNEE BY 110 AM EST MEIGS BY 115 AM EST MOULTRIE BY 130 AM EST THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY! IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. LARGE DAMAGING HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. GOULD NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 9:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Irwin | 44 min |
| Feb 13, 9:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur | 59 min |
| Feb 13, 10:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Seminole | 27 min |
| Feb 13, 10:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Seminole | 27 min |
| Feb 13, 10:44 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 46 min |
| Feb 13, 11:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Miller | 42 min |
| Feb 13, 11:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Mitchell | 42 min |
| Feb 13, 11:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 65 min |
| Feb 14, 12:01 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Mitchell, Worth | 44 min |
| Feb 14, 12:04 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Miller | 41 min |
| Feb 14, 12:29 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady | 46 min |
| Feb 14, 12:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Quitman, Randolph | 42 min |
| Feb 14, 12:39 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Mitchell | 51 min |
| Feb 14, 12:59 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Thomas | 46 min |
| Feb 14, 1:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Randolph, Terrell | 31 min |
| Feb 14, 1:32 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Cook, Tift | 43 min |
| Feb 14, 1:32 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Worth | 43 min |
| Feb 14, 2:04 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt | 26 min |
| Feb 14, 2:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien | 44 min |
| Feb 14, 2:20 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Cook | 25 min |
| Feb 14, 3:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Thomas | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.