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Tornado Warning 52, NWS Tallahassee, FL

December 16, 2000Early County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 16, 2000, 3:27 PM EST for Early County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Dec 16, 2000, 3:27 PM EST (20:27 UTC)
Expired: Dec 16, 2000, 4:15 PM EST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Early County, GA

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, 11:45 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 111 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 162028
TORTLH

GAC099-162115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EARLY COUNTY IN GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES BLAKELY...

* UNTIL 415 PM EST...

* AT 222 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLAKELY...OR ABOUT 12
  MILES NORTHEAST OF COTTONWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  BLAKELY BY 350 PM EST...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EST 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.

RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
TALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8999.

LAT...LON 3126 8509 3110 8501 3109 8493 3128 8491
   (       3127 8466 3148 8481 3150 8501

.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, 3:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Miller	23 min
Dec 16, 4:08 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Early	52 min
Dec 16, 4:31 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Dougherty	44 min
Dec 16, 4:54 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Lee, Terrell	36 min
Dec 16, 5:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty	30 min
Dec 16, 5:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Terrell	31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.