Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 13, 2000, 11:18 PM EST for Mitchell County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 13, 2000, 11:18 PM EST (04:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2000, 12:00 AM EST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mitchell County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 11:42 PM EST | Tornado F3 | Camilla, GA | A strong tornado tore through two major subdivisions and four mobile home parks just south of Camilla after touching down just east of Branchville. Damage assessments from the American Red Cross and Federal Emergency Management Agency reported 200 homes destr |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 6:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Feb 13, 11:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 140420 TORTLH GAC007-201-205-140500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1118 PM EST SUN FEB 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BAKER COUNTY IN GEORGIA SOUTHERN MILLER COUNTY IN GEORGIA MITCHELL COUNTY IN GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES CAMILLA * UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST * AT 1113 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 27 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEWTON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF BAINBRIDGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CAMILLA...NEWTON BY MIDNIGHT EST 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. GOULD NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 9:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Irwin | 44 min |
| Feb 13, 9:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur | 59 min |
| Feb 13, 10:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Seminole | 27 min |
| Feb 13, 10:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Seminole | 27 min |
| Feb 13, 10:44 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 46 min |
| Feb 13, 11:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Miller | 42 min |
| Feb 13, 11:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 65 min |
| Feb 14, 12:01 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Mitchell, Worth | 44 min |
| Feb 14, 12:04 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Miller | 41 min |
| Feb 14, 12:29 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady | 46 min |
| Feb 14, 12:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Quitman, Randolph | 42 min |
| Feb 14, 12:39 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Mitchell | 51 min |
| Feb 14, 12:59 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Thomas | 46 min |
| Feb 14, 12:59 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Grady | 46 min |
| Feb 14, 1:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Randolph, Terrell | 31 min |
| Feb 14, 1:32 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Cook, Tift | 43 min |
| Feb 14, 1:32 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Worth | 43 min |
| Feb 14, 2:04 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt | 26 min |
| Feb 14, 2:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien | 44 min |
| Feb 14, 2:20 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Cook | 25 min |
| Feb 14, 3:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Thomas | 42 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.