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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Tallahassee, FL

April 23, 1995Russell County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1995, 9:16 PM CDT for Russell County, Alabama. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 23, 1995, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired
Apr 23, 1995, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Russell County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 136 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 00:00Z on 1995-04-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 945 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 00:00Z on 1995-04-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 141 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
945 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1093 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
244 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
7.2

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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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 23, 7:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
FLZ014-015-240130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL
850 PM EDT SUN APR 23 1995

...TORNADO WATCH FOR GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES CANCELLED...

THE TORNADO WATCH WHICH WAS IN EFFECT HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEW
TORNADO WATCH WHICH DOES NOT INCLUDE GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES.
MOST OF THE ACTIVE WEATHER HAS AFFECTED PARTS OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA
PANHANDLE AND ALABAMA...STAYING AWAY FROM GULF AND FRANKLIN COUFNTIES.
THERE IS STILL A POSSIBILITY OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LATE TONIGHT AND
EARLY ON MONDAY MORNING.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL BROADCAST STATION FOR ANY
FURTHER UPDATES.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 23, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEStewart45 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.