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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 3, 1987Taylor County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1987, 3:15 PM EDT for Taylor County, Florida. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 1987, 3:15 PM EDT (19:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1987, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Taylor County, FL

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 192 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1987-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1987-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 1:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEChattahoochee, Marion, Talbot68 min
Jun 3, 1:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEMuscogee68 min
Jun 3, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAECook35 min
Jun 3, 7:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEColquitt, Cook45 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.