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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 16, 2000Bay County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 16, 2000, 11:01 AM CST for Bay County, Florida. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report 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 16, 2000, 11:01 AM CST (17:01 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 2000, 11:30 AM CST
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Bay County, FL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 16, 11:10 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 70 M	Tyndall Afb, FL	An 81-mph thunderstorm wind gust measured at Tyndall AFB (KPAM).

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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 16, 8:15 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 123 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 621 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 494 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 2.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 161707 COR
TORTLH
FLC005-045-161730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1101 AM CST THU MAR 16 2000

CORRECTED FOR PORTION OF BAY COUNTY IN WARNING

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN BAY COUNTY IN FLORIDA
  NORTHWESTERN GULF COUNTY IN FLORIDA

* UNTIL 1130 AM CST

* AT 1158 AM EST(1058 AM CST) NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF TYNDALL AFB...OR
  ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF CALLAWAY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 1130 AM CST...
  TYNDALL AFB
  MEXICO BEACH

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CST THURSDAY AFTERNOON
FOR ALABAMA AND FLORIDA AND GEORGIA.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY! IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF
THIS TORNADO...MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVA ILABLE.
OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

LAT...LON 3007 8570 2990 8564 2999 8523 3020 8530

WOOL
NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 16, 10:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay	58 min
Mar 16, 10:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gulf	58 min
Mar 16, 11:01 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Gulf	29 min
Mar 16, 11:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Gulf	42 min
Mar 16, 12:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	43 min
Mar 16, 12:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden	43 min
Mar 16, 12:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Wakulla	51 min
Mar 16, 12:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin	51 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.