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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 28, 1995Lee County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 28, 1995, 9:31 AM EST for Lee County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 28, 1995, 9:31 AM EST (14:31 UTC)
Expired: Jan 28, 1995, 10:15 AM EST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Lee County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 154 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 134 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 525 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 502 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 553 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.6

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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, Jan 28, 8:57 AM EST, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 28, 9:07 AM EST, 24 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 28, 12:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson	30 min
Jan 28, 8:56 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Randolph	49 min
Jan 28, 9:14 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Sumter, Terrell, Webster	61 min
Jan 28, 10:38 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Tift, Worth	52 min
Jan 28, 11:49 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Mitchell	56 min
Jan 28, 12:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Cook	60 min
Jan 28, 12:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Mitchell	60 min
Jan 28, 12:46 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur	29 min
Jan 28, 1:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Grady	36 min
Jan 28, 1:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Thomas	44 min
Jan 28, 1:39 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Thomas	25 min
Jan 28, 2:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks	29 min
Jan 28, 2:07 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Brooks	38 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.