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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 15, 1995Taylor County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1995, 6:30 PM EDT for Taylor County, Florida. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 15, 1995, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: Aug 15, 1995, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Taylor County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 78 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: 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KTLH 152231 RRA
SVRTLH
FLC123-FLZ505-152330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE TSTM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
630 PM EDT (530 PM CDT) TUE AUG 15 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE TSTM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EDT (630 
 FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH FLORIDA
 
   ...TAYLOR COUNTY
 
  AND FOR MARINE INTERESTS ON THE GULF COASTAL WATERS FROM THE
 
   ...AUCILLA RIVER  TO  STEINHATCHEE RIVER
 
AT 625 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NEAR STEINHATCHEE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE TO THE
SOUTHWEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR ACROSS STEINHATCHEE AND OVER THE COASTAL
WATERS NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE STEINHATCHEE RIVER DURING THE NEXT HALF
HOUR. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS.
 
ADDITIONAL STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS PARTS OF
TAYLOR COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR...ESPECIALLY FROM PERRY TO
STEINHATCHEE.
 
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.
N

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 15, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dixie	54 min
Aug 15, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Madison	55 min
Aug 15, 6:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson	57 min
Aug 15, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Leon	65 min
Aug 15, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Wakulla	64 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.