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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 19, 1995Decatur County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1995, 5:41 PM EDT for Decatur County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 19, 1995, 5:41 PM EDT (21:41 UTC)
Expired
Aug 19, 1995, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Decatur County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 59 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 1995-08-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1847 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 1995-08-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 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
1847 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
968 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
6 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 192141 RRA
SVRTLH
GAC087-192230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
541 PM EDT SAT AUG 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...DECATUR COUNTY
 
AT 540 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO NORTHEASTERN DECATUR COUNTY NEAR VADA. THIS
STORM IS MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS.
 
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
Aug 19, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEMitchell48 min
Aug 19, 5:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEGrady53 min
Aug 19, 6:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEWorth49 min
Aug 19, 7:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEMiller44 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.