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Tornado Warning 55, NWS Tallahassee, FL

December 16, 2000Lee County, Terrell County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 16, 2000, 4:54 PM EST for Lee County, Terrell County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 min. 2 reports 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, 4:54 PM EST (21:54 UTC)
Expired: Dec 16, 2000, 5:30 PM EST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Lee County, GA, Terrell County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Dec 16, 5:00 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Southeast Portion, GA	Several trees down. Reported by the Terrell County EMA.
Dec 16, 5:10 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Southwest Portion, GA	Several trees down. Reported by the Lee County EMA.

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, 11:45 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 147 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 162155
TORTLH

GAC177-273-162230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LEE COUNTY IN GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES LEESBURG...
  EASTERN TERRELL COUNTY IN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 530 PM EST...

* AT 447 PM EST A WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 21 MILES   
  SOUTHWEST OF LEESBURG...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF MORGAN...MOVING   
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  LEESBURG BY 530 PM EST...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EST SATURDAY AFTERNOON
FOR ALABAMA AND FLORIDA AND GEORGIA.1

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON YOUR MOBILE HOME FOR
A REINFORCED SHELTER.

LAT...LON 3163 8448 3164 8426 3164 8404 3189 8405
          3190 8443

.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, 4:08 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Early	52 min
Dec 16, 4:31 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Dougherty	44 min
Dec 16, 5:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty	30 min
Dec 16, 5:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Terrell	31 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.