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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 17, 1995Stewart County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1995, 3:53 PM EDT for Stewart County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 17, 1995, 3:53 PM EDT (19:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 1995, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Stewart County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1995-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 937 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1995-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 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
937 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1128 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 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 KCSG 171956 RRA
SVRCSG
GAC259-172045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
353 PM EDT MON JUL 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN STEWART COUNTY
 
AT 353 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST STEWART COUNTY APPROXIMATELY 10 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF THE COMMUNITY OF LUMPKIN, GEORGIA.  STORMS WERE MOVING
TO THE SOUTH AT 15 MPH.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE 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 Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 9:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAETerrell47 min
Jul 16, 10:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEMitchell47 min
Jul 17, 4:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEEarly40 min
Jul 17, 7:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEWorth43 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.