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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Tallahassee, FL
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 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.
- 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
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 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 6:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Gulf | 65 min |
| Mar 29, 7:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Liberty | 48 min |
| Mar 30, 12:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison | 42 min |
| Mar 30, 4:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jackson | 48 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.