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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 19, 1995Thomas County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1995, 3:35 PM EDT for Thomas County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 1995, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1995, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Thomas County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 63 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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 KTLH 191937
SVRTLH
GAC275-192000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
335 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN THOMAS COUNTY
 
AT 335 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF THOMAS COUNTY A FEW
MILES WEST OF PAVO. THIS STORM WILL MOVE RAPIDLY ACROSS THE NORTHEASTERN
CORNER OF THOMAS COUNTY BETWEEN PAVO AND COOLIDGE AT 40 MILES AN
HOUR...AND WILL PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS OF 58 MPH OR HIGHER... LARGE
HAIL... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM... GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.

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

Local storm report, May 19, 3:17 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
312 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

...PRELIMINARY REPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER FOR FRIDAY 19 MAY...

TIME (EDT)      COUNTY, STATE     ...EVENT/REMARKS...

240 EDT         DECATUR, GA       PLANE FLIPPED OVER BY HIGH WIND AT
(1840 Z)                          DECATUR COUNTY INDUSTRIAL AIRPORT
                                  ABOUT 5 MILES NW OF BAINBRIDGE.
                               D   A FEW TREES DOWN IN AREA.  REPORTED
                                  BY DECATUR COUNTY 911.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 1:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker	30 min
May 19, 1:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Worth	33 min
May 19, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt	11 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.