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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 15, 1994Worth County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1994, 6:36 PM EDT for Worth County, Georgia. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
May 15, 1994, 6:36 PM EDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1994, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Worth County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 272 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1994-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 365 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1994-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 97 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
365 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
579 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 2:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAELeon35 min
May 15, 3:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAELeon30 min
May 15, 3:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEGadsden40 min

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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.