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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Tallahassee, FL

September 22, 2000Liberty County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 22, 2000, 8:29 AM EDT for Liberty County, Florida. It was in force for 31 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
Sep 22, 2000, 8:29 AM EDT (12:29 UTC)
Expired
Sep 22, 2000, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Liberty County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 59 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-09-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 100 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-09-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 260 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 221230
TORTLH

FLC077-221300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
829 AM EDT FRI SEP 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN LIBERTY COUNTY IN FLORIDA

* UNTIL 900 AM EDT

* AT 824 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER CENTRAL FRANKLIN COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST 
AT 20 MPH.U

* THE TORNADO WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST LIBERTY COUNTY ON ITS WAY 
  TOWARDS WAKULLA COUNTY.


.END
9 FOURNIER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 22, 8:01 AM EDTTornado WarningTAEFranklin, Wakulla44 min
Sep 22, 9:51 AM EDTTornado WarningTAELeon, Wakulla39 min
Sep 22, 1:52 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEJefferson38 min
Sep 22, 2:51 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEMadison39 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.