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Tornado Warning 50, NWS Tallahassee, FL

December 16, 2000Holmes County, Jackson County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 16, 2000, 1:26 PM CST for Holmes County, Jackson County, Florida. It was in force for 34 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, 1:26 PM CST (19:26 UTC)
Expired: Dec 16, 2000, 2:00 PM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Dec 16, 1:50 PM CST	Tornado F1	Graceville, FL	The supercell thunderstorm which spawned an F2 tornado near Bonifay in southeast Holmes County, tracked northeast into northwest Jackson County. This storm produced an F1 tornado which touched down twice. The hardest hit areas were just south of Graceville a

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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 129 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KTAE 161928
TORTLH

FLC059-063-162000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
126 PM CST SAT DEC 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN HOLMES COUNTY IN FLORIDA
  THIS INCLUDES BONIFAY...
  WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY IN FLORIDA

* UNTIL 200 PM CST...

* AT 124 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF BONIFAY...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 35 MPH.

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 3075 8570 3083 8558 3081 8537 3099 8522
          3100 8566

.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, 12:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Walton, Washington	41 min
Dec 16, 1:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Washington	49 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.