Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 11, 2000, 8:28 PM EST for Gadsden County, Florida. It was in force for 17 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 11, 2000, 8:28 PM EST (01:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2000, 8:45 PM EST
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gadsden County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 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, 8:45 PM EST | Tornado F0 | Quincy, FL | A brief F0 tornado touchdown observed by law enforcement and a storm spotter near Interstate 10 mile marker 165. No damage reported. |
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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 36 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 120130 TORTLH FLC039-120145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 828 PM EST SAT MAR 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN GADSDEN COUNTY IN FLORIDA * UNTIL 845 PM EST * AT 825 PM EST LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR QUINCY... OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF TALLAHASSEE...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION-TAKE COVER NOW!! THIS TORNADO IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING EXTREME DAMAGE. TURNAGE NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 7:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Jackson | 29 min |
| Mar 11, 7:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Liberty | 27 min |
| Mar 11, 8:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden | 22 min |
| Mar 11, 8:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon | 36 min |
| Mar 11, 8:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Leon | 28 min |
| Mar 11, 9:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson | 28 min |
| Mar 11, 9:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Madison | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.