Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 11, 2000, 7:28 PM EST for Brooks County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 11, 2000, 7:28 PM EST (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2000, 8:00 PM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Brooks County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:25 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 7:40 PM EST | Hail 1 | Northeast Portion, GA | Quarter size hail. Reported by the Brooks County EMA. |
| Mar 11, 7:40 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Northeast Portion, GA | Some downed trees and power lines. Reported by the Brooks County EMA. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 88 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 120030 TORTLH GAC027-120100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 728 PM EST SAT MAR 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BROOKS COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 800 PM EST * AT 722 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SAND HILL...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF QUITMAN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SAND HILL BY 730 PM EST NEW ROCK HILL...PEBBLE HILL BY 740 PM EST SPAIN BY 745 PM EST MORVEN...BARNEY BY 750 PM EST TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS AT NIGHT WHEjN THEY ARE DIFFICULT TO DETECT. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA...SEEK REFUGE IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. LAT...LON 3100 8374 3082 8374 3087 8342 3104 8351 VOLKMER NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 7:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Thomas | 28 min |
| Mar 11, 7:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur | 34 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 |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.