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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 22, 2000, 8:01 AM EDT for Franklin County, Wakulla County, Florida. It was in force for 44 min. 3 reports 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
- Sep 22, 2000, 8:01 AM EDT (12:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2000, 8:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, FL, Wakulla County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 8:05 AM EDT | Tornado F0 | St Teresa, FL | A waterspout came ashore at Alligator Point. A home on Gulf Shores Boulevard sustained minor damage and several trees were uprooted. Reported by the Franklin County EMA. |
| Sep 22, 8:15 AM EDT | Tornado F1 | East Pt, FL | An F1 tornado touched down along Highway 65 at the East Bay Tower on the southwest edge of Tates Hell Swamp. Numerous trees and power lines down. Reported by the Franklin County EMA. |
| Sep 22, 8:45 AM EDT | Tornado F0 | Sopchoppy, FL | A brief F0 tornado touched down and uprooted some trees and power lines. Reported by the Wakulla 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 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 504 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 221202 TORTLH FLC037-129-221245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 801 AM EDT FRI SEP 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FRANKLIN COUNTY IN FLORIDA WAKULLA COUNTY IN FLORIDA * UNTIL 845 AM EDT * AT 759 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTH OF CREELS...OR ABOUT 47 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CALLAWAY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CREELS BY 805 AM EDT HIGH BLUFF BY 810 AM EDT YENT PLACE BY 825 AM EDT CARRABELLE BY 830 AM EDT A TORNADO WARNING MEANS THAT A TORNADO HA$S BEEN SIGHTED OR INDICATED BY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR. PERSONS IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD FOLLOW THEIR TORNADO SAFETY PLANS IMMEDIATELY. .END 9 FOURNIER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 8:29 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Liberty | 31 min |
| Sep 22, 9:51 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Leon, Wakulla | 39 min |
| Sep 22, 1:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jefferson | 38 min |
| Sep 22, 2:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Madison | 39 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.