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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Tallahassee, FL

September 22, 2000Madison County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 22, 2000, 2:51 PM EDT for Madison County, Florida. It was in force for 39 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
Sep 22, 2000, 2:51 PM EDT (18:51 UTC)
Expired
Sep 22, 2000, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Madison County, FL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 22, 2:55 PM EDTTornado F0Greenville, FLA brief F0 tornado touched down along Lake Logan Road and uprooted numerous trees. Reported by the Madison 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 80 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 221852
TORTLH

FLC079-221930-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MADISON COUNTY IN FLORIDA

* UNTIL 330 PM EDT

* AT 250 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREENVILLE...OR ABOUT 21
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF QUITMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  HAMBURG BY 310 PM EDT
  LOVETT BY 315 PM EDT
  CHERRY LAKE BY 325 PM EDT
  PINETTA BY 330 PM EDT

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME FOR
A REINFORCED SHELTER.


.END
17 GOULD

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, 9:51 AM EDTTornado WarningTAELeon, Wakulla39 min
Sep 22, 1:52 PM EDTTornado WarningTAEJefferson38 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.