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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 12, 1992Madison County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1992, 6:23 PM EDT for Madison County, Florida. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 12, 1992, 6:23 PM EDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired
Jul 12, 1992, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Madison County, FL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 12, 6:30 PM EDTHail 1.5Madison, FL

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. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 80 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1992-07-12Temperature 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1992-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 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
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-1.2

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The text

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

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 12, 4:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 8:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAELee48 min
Jul 12, 2:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEWebster67 min
Jul 12, 6:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBrooks49 min
Jul 12, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEOkaloosa69 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.