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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 19, 1995Baker County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1995, 1:15 PM EDT for Baker County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 19, 1995, 1:15 PM EDT (17:15 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 1995, 1:45 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Baker County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 104 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2673 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2673 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
4.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCSG 191714
SVRCSG
GAC007-191745-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
115 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...BAKER COUNTY
 
AT 112 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN BAKER COUNTY 5 MILES NORTH OF NEWTON. THE STORM
WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 1:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEDougherty, Worth33 min
May 19, 3:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEThomas25 min
May 19, 3:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEColquitt11 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.