Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 2001, 2:01 AM CST for Holmes County, Florida. It was in force for 29 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
- Mar 15, 2001, 2:01 AM CST (08:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2001, 2:30 AM CST
- In force
- 29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 1:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2174 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KTAE 150802 SVRTLH FLC059-150830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 201 AM CST THU MAR 15 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN HOLMES COUNTY IN FLORIDA * UNTIL 230 AM CST... * AT 201 AM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF GENEVA...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PITTMAN...IZAGORA BY 205 AM CST... MILLER CROSSROADS BY 210 AM CST... ARDS CROSSROADS BY 215 AM CST... HOLLAND CROSSROADS...NOMA JUNCTION BY 220 AM CST... A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM...BUT BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS. HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT. LAT...LON 3098 8603 3086 8600 3085 8561 3100 8558 .END 12-WATSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 3:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton, Washington | 42 min |
| Mar 15, 3:37 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jackson, Washington | 38 min |
| Mar 15, 6:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden | 28 min |
| Mar 15, 1:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor | 45 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.