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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 16, 2000, 4:08 PM EST for Baker County, Calhoun County, Early County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 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, 4:08 PM EST (21:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2000, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Baker County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 117 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 162109 TORTLH GAC007-037-099-162200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 408 PM EST SAT DEC 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BAKER COUNTY IN GEORGIA SOUTHEASTERN CALHOUN COUNTY IN GEORGIA EASTERN EARLY COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 500 PM EST... * AT 401 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTH OF ARLINGTON...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF COLQUITT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ARLINGTON BY 410 PM EST... LEARY BY 430 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 ITALLAHASSEE AT (850) 942-8999. LAT...LON 3142 8479 3127 8478 3131 8443 3161 8448 .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, 3:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early | 48 min |
| Dec 16, 3:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Miller | 23 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.