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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 16, 1995Calhoun County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1995, 5:53 PM CDT for Calhoun County, Florida. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 16, 1995, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 1995, 6:36 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Calhoun County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 125 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, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1536 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, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 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
1536 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1499 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 15, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJefferson40 min
Aug 15, 7:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAELeon68 min
Aug 15, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEFranklin46 min
Aug 16, 1:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEFranklin, Gulf57 min
Aug 16, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBay42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.