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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 26, 1994Harris County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1994, 7:47 PM EDT for Harris County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 1994, 7:47 PM EDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1994, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Harris County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 201 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 1994-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1106 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 1994-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -42 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
1106 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
552 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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

Local storm report, Jun 26, 7:10 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 12:54 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEFranklin66 min
Jun 26, 1:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAETaylor41 min
Jun 26, 2:39 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEWakulla51 min
Jun 26, 1:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEWorth28 min
Jun 26, 5:24 PM EDTTornado WarningTAETaylor51 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.