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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 30, 2000Jackson County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2000, 4:27 PM CST for Jackson County, Florida. It was in force for 48 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 30, 2000, 4:27 PM CST (22:27 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2000, 5:15 PM CST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Jackson County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 98 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: 1322 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 514 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 229 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 321 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.1
Supercell composite: 8.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 302228 COR
TORTLH
FLC063-302315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
427 PM CST THU MAR 30 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  JACKSON COUNTY IN FLORIDA

* UNTIL 515 PM CST

* AT 425 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF MARIANNA...OR ABOUT 11 MILES    
  EAST OF CHIPLEY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  COTTONDALE BY 435 PM CST
  MARIANNA BY 440 PM CST

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


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, 6:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay	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

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.