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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Tallahassee, FL

November 11, 1995Grady County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Nov 11, 1995, 11:23 AM EST for Grady County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Nov 11, 1995, 11:23 AM EST (16:23 UTC)
Expired: Nov 11, 1995, 12:15 PM EST
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Grady County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 11, 11:30 AM EST	Tornado F1	Nickleville, GA	A tornado blew down many large trees and damaged five residences.
Nov 11, 11:40 AM EST	Tornado F1	Cairo, GA	A tornado caused intermittent damage on a track parallel to GA Highway 188. One unoccupied moble home was completely destroyed. Several other frame homes received serious damage.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 53 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -236 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 579 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 305 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 416 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTLH 111624
TORTLH
GAC131-111715-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1123 AM EST SAT NOV 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...GRADY COUNTY
 
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATE A TORNADIC STORM
WITHIN A LINE OF SEVERE STORMS MOVING INTO GRADY COUNTY. THE TORNADIC
STORM WILL MOVE TO A POSITION NEAR CAIRO BY 1030 AM EST. THE LINE OF
STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS OVER OTHER PARTS OF THE
COUNTY.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS UNDER
STURDY FURNITURE IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE
PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. A MOBILE HOME IS NOT A
SAFE REFUGE FROM A TORNADO. MOVE TO A MORE SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING.
 
 
 
&

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 11, 10:48 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Early, Miller, Seminole	42 min
Nov 11, 10:48 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun	42 min
Nov 11, 10:59 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur	46 min
Nov 11, 12:23 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Berrien, Lanier, Lowndes	52 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.