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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 29, 2000Bay County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 2000, 6:40 PM CST for Bay County, Florida. It was in force for 65 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
Mar 29, 2000, 6:40 PM CST (00:40 UTC)
Expired
Mar 29, 2000, 7:45 PM CST
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Bay County, FL

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 29, 6:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 87 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 00:00Z on 2000-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 868 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 00:00Z on 2000-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 148 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
868 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
433 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.3
Supercell composite
4.1

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The text

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

764 
WFUS52 KTAE 300040
TORTLH
FLC005-045-300145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
640 PM CST WED MAR 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM CST (845 PM EST)

* AT 636 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF FARMDALE...OR ABOUT 10
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF CALLAWAY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR
  BEACON HILL...EARLY BY 645 PM CST
  DALKEITH...WHITE CITY BY 800 PM EST

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST THURSDAY 
MORNING (100 AM EST THURSDAY MORNING) FOR ALABAMA AND FLORIDA AND 
GEORGIA.


MOLLERE
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 6:40 PM CSTTornado WarningTAEGulf65 min
Mar 29, 7:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEFranklin, Liberty48 min
Mar 30, 12:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJefferson, Madison42 min
Mar 30, 4:27 PM CSTTornado WarningTAEJackson48 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.