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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 204, NWS Tallahassee, FL

October 28, 1995Thomas County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 28, 1995, 12:20 AM EDT for Thomas County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 28, 1995, 12:20 AM EDT (04:20 UTC)
Expired
Oct 28, 1995, 1:00 AM EDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Thomas County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 216 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, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 1995-10-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1611 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, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 1995-10-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 83 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1611 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1103 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
3.7

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The text

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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, 8 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 27, 3:45 PM EDT, 8 hours 35 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 28, 12:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBrooks45 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.