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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Tallahassee, FL

September 22, 2000Brooks County, Lowndes County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 22, 2000, 2:55 PM EDT for Brooks County, Lowndes County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 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, 2:55 PM EDT (18:55 UTC)
Expired
Sep 22, 2000, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Brooks County, GA, Lowndes County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 94 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.

125 
WFUS52 KTAE 221855
TORTLH
GAC027-185-221945-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BROOKS COUNTY IN GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES QUITMAN
  LOWNDES COUNTY IN GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES VALDOSTA

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* AT 255 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF QUITMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  QUITMAN BY 300 PM EDT
  WEST VALDOSTA BY 325 PM EDT
  VALDOSTA BY 335 PM EDT
  HAHIRA BY 340 PM EDT

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

LAT...LON 3078 8361 3065 8341 3089 8316 3101 8344

.END
17 GOULD

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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.