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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Jacksonville, FL

June 15, 1996Appling County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1996, 7:20 PM EDT for Appling County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 1996, 7:20 PM EDT (23:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1996, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Appling County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 150 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1222 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1222 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
705 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 15, 3:34 PM EDT, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 3:34 PM EDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
335 PM EDT SAT JUN 15 1996

WILL LEAN MORE TOWARDS THE AVN POPS WHICH HAVE VERFIED WELL LAST
COUPLE OF DAYS OTHERWISE NO GREAT CHANGES. TSMS CONT TO FIRE UP
AROUND VORT SPOKE MOVING THROUGH AND ALSO ALONG SFC MOIST FLUX CNVG
IN S GA. NXT AREA UNDER GUN...S GA. MODELS INDICATE MID LEVEL LOW
DROPPING SOUTH ACROSS FL PEN WITH SFC TROUGH EAST WEST ACROSS S GA.

PRELIM
SSI TB 072/086 07$2/085 04453
JAX TB 071/088 071/088 04463
GNV TB 070/090 070/088 04463

PETERSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 2:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXFlagler65 min
Jun 15, 5:08 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJAXPutnam4 hr
Jun 15, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCoffee30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.