Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 11, 2000, 7:02 PM EST for Thomas County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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
- Mar 11, 2000, 7:02 PM EST (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2000, 7:30 PM EST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Thomas County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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 nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 1584 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 120005 COR TORTLH GAC275-120030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 702 PM EST SAT MAR 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... THOMAS COUNTY IN GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES THOMASVILLE * UNTIL 730 PM EST * AT 652 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER THOMASVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... THOMASVILLE BY 705 PM EST BOSTON BY 715 PM EST PAVO BY 720 PM 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST SUNDAY MORNING FOR ALABAMA AND FLORIDA AND GEORGIA. LAT...LON 3095 8401 3077 8399 3077 8374 3098 8374 VOLKMER NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 7:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur | 34 min |
| Mar 11, 7:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks | 32 min |
| Mar 11, 8:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 32 min |
| Mar 11, 8:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Lanier | 44 min |
| Mar 11, 9:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Thomas | 28 min |
| Mar 11, 9:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lowndes | 27 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.