Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 47, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 16, 2000, 10:34 AM CST for Geneva County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 16, 2000, 10:34 AM CST (16:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2000, 11:00 AM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Geneva County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 10:34 AM CST | Tornado F2 | Geneva, AL | An F2 tornado touched down on West Hendrix Avenue, just north of Highway 27 South, then tore through the Devco Community, Geneva, AL and continued on through the Bellwood Community just east of Highway 85 before lifting. In its wake, the tornado damaged up to |
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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 161634 TORTLH ALC061-161700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1034 AM CST SAT DEC 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL GENEVA COUNTY IN ALABAMA THIS INCLUDES GENEVA... * UNTIL 1100 AM CST... * AT 1030 AM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GENEVA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... GENEVA BY 1035 AM CST... HARTFORD BY 1055 AM CST... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME FOR A REINFORCED SHELTER. 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 3101 8599 3100 8584 3118 8554 3119 8588 .END WATSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 10:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva | 44 min |
| Dec 16, 11:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale | 29 min |
| Dec 16, 11:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry | 48 min |
| Dec 16, 1:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Houston | 41 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.