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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 19, 1995Colquitt County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1995, 3:49 PM EDT for Colquitt County, Georgia. It was in force for 11 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 19, 1995, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 1995, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
11 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Colquitt County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 101 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 191948
SVRCSG
GAC071-192000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
349 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN COLQUITT COUNTY
 
AT 346 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHEAST THOMAS COUNTY MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST COLQUITT
COUNTY. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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, 32 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 1:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBaker30 min
May 19, 1:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEDougherty, Worth33 min
May 19, 3:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEThomas25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.