Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1995, 1:46 PM EST for Dougherty County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 7, 1995, 1:46 PM EST (18:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 7, 1995, 2:30 PM EST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dougherty County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Nov 7, 10:09 AM EST, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 7, 10:09 AM EST, 3 hours 37 minutes before
ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-072100- AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1000 AM EST TUE NOV 7 1995 POTENTIAL FOR SVR TSTMS ACRS THE FA DURG LATE AFT/EARLY EVE AS CDFNT APCHS FROM MS VLY. STG WNDS ALOFT THIS MRNG WITH 40 TO 50 KTS BETW 5 AND 10 THSND FEET ON KEVX VAD WIND PROFILE. MODIFIED HODOGRAPH FROM KEVX WINDS ALREADY SHOWS SR HELICITY IN NEIGHBORHOOD OF 250 FOR RIGHT MOVING STMS. XPCT SPEED SHEAR TO INCRS THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AS MID-LVL WINDS STRENGTHEN. LIMITING FACTOR MAY BE DEGREE OF INSTABILITY AS TEMPS ARE RELATIVELY WARM ALOFT. HOWEVER...WITH DEWPTS ALREADY CREEPING UP INTO THE LWR 70S AND TEMPS WARMING...FEEL THAT SUFFICIENT INSTABILITY WILL EXIST TO WARRANT ENHANCED WORDING FOR SVR THREAT IN THE ZONES. PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE DMGG WINDS THIS AFTN OVR FL PNHNDL/SE AL...AND THIS EVE OVR SW GA/NW FL...BUT WILL NOT RULE OUT THE POSSIBILITY OF A FEW TORNADOES. AS FOR THE CUURENT PACKAGE...WOULD RECOMMEND BUMPING UP MAX TEMPS IN THE FL ZONES AS PAM HAS ALREADY REACHED MID 70S AS OF 9 AM. WOULD ADD ENHANCED WORDING TO NW FL ZONES FOR SVR THREAT AND RAISE POPS TO LIKELY CAT THIS EVENING...PER COORD CALL WITH MIA. TEMPS MAY BE TOO WARM ON THE MINS DEPENDING ON THE TIMING OF FROPA. MOORE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 4:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes | 37 min |
| Nov 7, 4:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 32 min |
| Nov 7, 1:49 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dougherty | 41 min |
| Nov 7, 2:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Worth | 20 min |
| Nov 7, 2:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early | 27 min |
| Nov 7, 2:24 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Turner | 36 min |
| Nov 7, 3:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Mitchell | 25 min |
| Nov 7, 3:40 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Tift | 50 min |
| Nov 7, 5:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 39 min |
| Nov 7, 5:47 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 28 min |
Nearby
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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.