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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Tallahassee, FL

October 27, 1995Muscogee County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 5:36 PM EDT for Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 27, 1995, 5:36 PM EDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired
Oct 27, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Muscogee County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 1995-10-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 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 1995-10-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 249 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-369 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
886 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
257 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 272137 RRA
SVRBHM
GAC215-272215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
436 PM CDT (536 PM EDT) FRI OCT 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM CDT (615 PM EDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...MUSCOGEE COUNTY
 
AT 535 EDT DIME SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN THE CITY OF COLUMBUS.
THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THIS HAIL WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
 
 
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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 27, 3:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 27, 3:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-272145-

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
300 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995

STRNG S/WV MOVG THRU CNTRL U.S. BCMS NEGTVLY TILTED OVR ERN U.S. AS
FIERCE JET MAX RIDES DOWN THE BACK SIDE OF THE TROF. ASSOC SFC FNT TO
MOVE THRU FCST AREA TNGHT AND EARLY SAT MORN WITH NGM THE SLOWEST OF
THE THREE MDLS. THRU THE 6-18 HR FCSTS...MDLS SHOW MAIN JETS HOLDNG
WELL TO OUR NORTH...HOWEVER A SEPARATE UPPR LVL SPEED MAX IS EVIDENT
OVR THE GULF CST. IN ADDTN 850 JET NOW OVR LA/MS TRANSLATES EWRD OVR
AREA TNGHT. MDLS PRODUCE IMPRSSV DEEP LAYRD UVV ACRSS AREA THRU 18-24
HRS...PROB A RESULT OF WAA ADIABATIC LIFT AND JET DYNAMICS. NUMEROUS
RWS/TRWS HAVE FORMED THIS AFTN IN AREAS HIGHLIGHTD BY MDLS.

THIS WAS GOING TO BE A GREAT DISCUSSION...HOWEVER WE HAVE NOW ENTERED
WARNING MODE AND I HAVE NO TIME FOR THIS.

1 60/74/47/71  70/0/0/0
2 68/77/51/74  60/10/0/0
3 66/76/47/72  60/10/0/0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 27, 6:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEMuscogee45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 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.