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Tornado Warning 56, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 16, 2000, 7:56 PM EST for Colquitt County, Worth County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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, 7:56 PM EST (00:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2000, 8:30 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Colquitt County, GA, Worth 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, 5:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 1141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 362 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.5
- Supercell composite
- 8.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 170056 TORTLH GAC071-321-170130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 756 PM EST SAT DEC 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COLQUITT COUNTY IN GEORGIA WORTH COUNTY IN GEORGIA THIS INCLUDES SYLVESTER... * UNTIL 830 PM EST... * AT 753 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOERUN...OR ABOUT 14 MILES EAST OF CAMILLA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... DOERUN BY 805 PM EST... SYLVESTER BY 815 PM EST... POULAN BY 820 PM EST... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EST SATURDAY EVENING FOR ALABAMA AND FLORIDA AND GEORGIA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EST SATURDAY EVENING FOR FLORIDA AND GEORGIA. LAT...LON 3140 8400 3120 8398 3139 8368 3160 8375 .END 5-MOLLERE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 8:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early | 50 min |
| Dec 16, 8:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay | 50 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.