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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 16, 2000, 12:34 PM CST for Walton County, Washington County, Florida. It was in force for 41 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, 12:34 PM CST (18:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2000, 1:15 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 12:55 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Santa Rosa Beach, FL | Several small trees down on County Road 6 about 1/8 mile north of Highway 20. Reported by the Walton 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 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 159 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 161834 TORTLH FLC131-133-161915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1234 PM CST SAT DEC 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN WALTON COUNTY IN FLORIDA WESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN FLORIDA THIS INCLUDES VERNON... * UNTIL 115 PM CST... * AT 1231 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VERNON...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF SANTA ROSA BEACH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... VERNON BY 100 PM CST... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CST SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR ALABAMA AND FLORIDA AND GEORGIA. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME FOR A REINFORCED SHELTER. LAT...LON 3050 8616 3039 8604 3053 8566 3074 8576 .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 | Holmes | 44 min |
| Dec 16, 12:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton | 38 min |
| Dec 16, 1:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Jackson, Washington | 49 min |
| Dec 16, 1:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes, Jackson | 34 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.