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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 28, 1995Tift County, Worth County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 28, 1995, 10:38 AM EST for Tift County, Worth County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 28, 1995, 10:38 AM EST (15:38 UTC)
Expired: Jan 28, 1995, 11:30 AM EST
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Tift County, GA, Worth County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 136 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KCSG 281540 RRA
SVRCSG
GAC277-321-281630-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
1038 AM EST SAT JAN 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...TIFT COUNTY...WORTH COUNTY
 
AT 1035 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NEAR SYLVESTER IN WORTH COUNTY OF SOUTH CENTRAL
GEORGIA...ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF ALBANY GEORGIA. THE STORM WAS MOVING
EAST AT 50 MPH.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND~
DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 9:31 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lee	44 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

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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.