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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 25, 1994Chattahoochee County, Marion County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1994, 12:54 AM EST for Chattahoochee County, Marion County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 25, 1994, 12:54 AM EST (05:54 UTC)
Expired
Mar 25, 1994, 1:45 AM EST
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Chattahoochee County, GA, Marion County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 218 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 00:00Z on 1994-03-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 81 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 00:00Z on 1994-03-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 111 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
81 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
595 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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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, Mar 24, 10:45 PM EST, 2 hours 9 minutes before
FLC014-015-250800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL
1030 PM EST THU MAR 24 1994

AT 1030 AM EST PATCHY DENSE FOG HAS DEVELOPED OVER GULF AND FRANKLIN
COUNTIES AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS.

THE VISIBILITY AT THE APALACHICOLA AIRPORT WAS LESS THAN 1/4 MILE.

MOTORIST ARE URGED TO USE LOW BEAMS...AND EXTRA TRAVELING TIME
THIS EVENING AND EARLY FRIDAY MORNING.

THE FOG SHOULD BEGIN TO LIFT DURING MID MORNING HOURS.

FOR MARINERS THE FOG WILL CLEAR MORE SLOWLY.

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 24, 7:32 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHarris28 min
Mar 25, 12:02 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEMuscogee28 min
Mar 25, 3:47 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEColquitt, Mitchell58 min
Mar 24, 11:43 PM ESTTornado WarningTAERussell32 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.