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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 16, 2000, 11:27 AM CST for Dale County, Henry County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 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, 11:27 AM CST (17:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2000, 12:15 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Dale County, AL, Henry County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 11:30 AM CST | Tornado F1 | Abbeville, AL | The F2 tornado continued its intermittent track northeast from eastern Dale County into western Henry County, but had weakened to an F1 tornado. Just north of Murphy Station along Highway 27 and a quarter mile west of U.S. Highway 431, the tornado completely |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 10:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 161 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 161728 TORTLH ALC045-067-161815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1127 AM CST SAT DEC 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DALE COUNTY IN ALABAMA WESTERN HENRY COUNTY IN ALABAMA * UNTIL 1215 PM CST... * AT 1122 AM CST EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR NEWTON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MIDLAND CITY...PINCKARD BY 1125 AM CST... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CST SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR ALABAMA AND FLORIDA AND GEORGIA. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY! IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. LAT...LON 3139 8567 3125 8552 3145 8521 3166 8536 .END 12-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, 10:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Geneva | 26 min |
| Dec 16, 11:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale | 29 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.