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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 18, 2000Irwin County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Aug 18, 2000, 8:25 PM EDT for Irwin County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 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: Aug 18, 2000, 8:25 PM EDT (00:25 UTC)
Expired: Aug 18, 2000, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Irwin County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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
Aug 18, 8:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Irwinville, GA	Numerous trees down. Reported by the Irwin County EMA.

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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 2932 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1275 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 15.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 190027
TORTLH

GAC155-190115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
825 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN IRWIN COUNTY IN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT

* AT 823 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF
  IRWINVILLE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF FITZGERALD...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  IRWINVILLE BY 825 PM EDT
  PINETTA BY 830 PM EDT

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

.END
5 MOLLERE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 18, 8:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Irwin, Turner	40 min
Aug 18, 8:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill	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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.