Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 54, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 16, 2000, 4:31 PM EST for Dougherty County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 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, 4:31 PM EST (21:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2000, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Dougherty County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 4:50 PM EST | Tornado F2 | Albany, GA | An F2 tornado damaged the main house and several surrounding structures at Abigail Plantation off Old Tallahassee Road, as well as several other homes on Old Dawson and Springhill Roads. Hundreds of plantation trees were uprooted. Downed power poles affected |
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 nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 162132 TORTLH GAC095-162215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 431 PM EST SAT DEC 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DOUGHERTY COUNTY IN GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES ALBANY... * UNTIL 515 PM EST... * AT 430 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 24 MILES WEST OF ALBANY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF MORGAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ALBANY BY 505 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 PAlTH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME FOR A REINFORCED SHELTER. LAT...LON 3158 8444 3145 8441 3153 8406 3162 8433 .END 17-GOULD
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, 4:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Early | 52 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.