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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Jacksonville, FL

May 31, 1995Liberty County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1995, 7:31 PM EDT for Liberty County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 31, 1995, 7:31 PM EDT (23:31 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1995, 8:13 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Liberty County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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 1995-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 497 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 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
497 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1065 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSAV 312331
SVRSAV
GAC031-179-010030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAVANNAH GA
731 PM EDT WED MAY 31 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAVANNAH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...BULLOCH COUNTY...NORTHERN LIBERTY COUNTY
 
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO BULLOCH AND NORTH LIBERTY
COUNTIES...AS INDICATED ON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT
730 PM EDT...THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT NEAR 20
MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHT-
NING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MO.VE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXWayne42 min
May 31, 7:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBulloch42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.