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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 16, 1995Terrell County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 9:13 PM EDT for Terrell County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 1995, 9:13 PM EDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1995, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Terrell County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 00:00Z on 1995-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3143 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 00:00Z on 1995-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 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
3143 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1241 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
54 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 KTLH 170113 RRA
SVRTLH
GAC273-170200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
913 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...TERRELL COUNTY
 
AT 910 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN TERRELL COUNTY NEAR PARROTT. THIS STORM IS
MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE
HAIL.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS OF 58 MPH OR HIGHER... LARGE
HAIL... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM... GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 10:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEMitchell47 min
Jul 17, 3:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEStewart52 min
Jul 17, 4:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEEarly40 min
Jul 17, 7:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEWorth43 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.