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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Tallahassee, FL

September 22, 2000Leon County, Wakulla County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 22, 2000, 9:51 AM EDT for Leon County, Wakulla County, Florida. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Sep 22, 2000, 9:51 AM EDT (13:51 UTC)
Expired
Sep 22, 2000, 10:30 AM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Leon County, FL, Wakulla County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:55 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 5 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 221358 COR
TORTLH

WFUS52 KTAE 221351
TORTLH
FLC073-129-221430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED TO TAKE OUT JEFFERSON COUNTY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
951 AM EDT FRI SEP 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LEON COUNTY IN FLORIDA
  THIS INCLUDES TALLAHASSEE
  NORTH CENTRAL WAKULLA COUNTY IN FLORIDA

* UNTIL 1030 AM EDT

* AT 950 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF WOODVILLE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES
  SOUTH OF TALLAHASSEE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  WOODVILLE BY 1000 AM EDT
  TALLAHASSEE BY 1010 AM EDT

A TORNADO WARNING MEANS THAT A TORNADO HAS BEEN SIGHTED OR INDICATED
BY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR. PERSONS IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD FOLLOW
THEIR TORNADO SAFETY PLANS IMMEDIATELY.

LAT...LON 3030 8442 3025 8433 3047 8393 3065 8413

.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, 8:29 AM EDTTornado WarningTAELiberty31 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.