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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 15, 1995Brooks County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1995, 5:30 PM EDT for Brooks County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 15, 1995, 5:30 PM EDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired
Aug 15, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Brooks County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 85 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 12:00Z on 1995-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2181 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 12:00Z on 1995-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 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
2181 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1160 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 15, 5:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEDixie54 min
Aug 15, 6:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEMadison55 min
Aug 15, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAETaylor60 min
Aug 15, 6:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJefferson57 min
Aug 15, 6:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAELeon65 min
Aug 15, 7:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEWakulla64 min
Aug 15, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEColquitt25 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.