Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT for Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 27, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 1995, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 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, 10.3 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.
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 27, 3:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 30 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 JW/#10
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 46 min |
| Oct 27, 3:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 39 min |
| Oct 27, 4:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes | 25 min |
| Oct 27, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Muscogee | 39 min |
| Oct 27, 4:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Houston | 39 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.