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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 19, 2001Holmes County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 2001, 11:15 AM CST for Holmes County, Florida. It was in force for 30 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: Jan 19, 2001, 11:15 AM CST (17:15 UTC)
Expired: Jan 19, 2001, 11:45 AM CST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Holmes County, FL

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 19, 11:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 807 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 308 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 354 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KTAE 191716
SVRTLH

ALC061-FLC059-191745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1115 AM CST FRI JAN 19 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN HOLMES COUNTY IN FLORIDA

* UNTIL 1145 AM CST...

* AT 1115 AM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED    
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING   
  FROM 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GENEVA TO 11 MILES WEST OF               
  BONIFAY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  ARDS CROSSROADS BY 1120 AM CST...
  ESTO...HOLLAND CROSSROADS BY 1130 AM CST...
  BONIFAY...BY 1135 AM CST...
  UNDERWOOD CROSSING...TENDIL CROSSING BY 1140 AM CST...
  COBB CROSSROADS...ELEANOR BY 1145 AM CST...

THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS DAMAGING WINDS. LARGE HAIL IS ALSO
POSSIBLE.


REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN TALLAHASSEE. OR YOU
CAN ALSO CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE DIRECTLY AT
850-942-8999 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER.

LAT...LON 3100 8583 3076 8590 3081 8580 3077 8562
          3100 8552

.END
22-BARRY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 19, 11:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Washington	35 min
Jan 19, 4:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Leon, Wakulla	43 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.