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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 9, 2000, 7:03 AM CST for Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 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
- Nov 9, 2000, 7:03 AM CST (13:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 2000, 7:45 AM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Houston County, AL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 4:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 091304 TORTLH ALC069-091345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 703 AM CST THU NOV 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL HOUSTON COUNTY IN ALABAMA THIS INCLUDES...COTTONWOOD...SOUTH DOTHAN... * UNTIL 745 AM CST... * AT 656 AM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF COTTONWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... COTTONWOOD BY 715 AM CST... SOUTH DOTHAN BY 725 AM CST... COWARTS BY 730 AM CST... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CST THURSDAY MORNING FFOR ALABAMA AND FLORIDA AND GEORGIA. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME FOR A REINFORCED SHELTER. LAT...LON 3102 8549 3101 8533 3114 8518 3127 8547 .END 12-WATSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 6:26 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Geneva | 34 min |
| Nov 9, 6:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dale, Houston | 45 min |
| Nov 9, 9:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry, Houston | 44 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Alabama, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes in 2000
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.