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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Tallahassee, FL

December 7, 1996Dixie County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 7, 1996, 8:12 AM EST for Dixie County, Florida. It was in force for 63 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: Dec 7, 1996, 8:12 AM EST (13:12 UTC)
Expired: Dec 7, 1996, 9:15 AM EST
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Dixie County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 500 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 615 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.8

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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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Dec 6, 6:18 PM EST, 13 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 6, 6:18 PM EST, 13 hours 54 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
700 PM EST FRI DEC 6 1996

NO SIG DEVIATION FROM THINKING IN PREVIOUS AFD... ONLY MAJOR MOD TO
TAFS WAS TO BRING CIGS/VSBY DOWN A LITTLE EARLIER IN VIEW OF THE FACT
THAT WINDS ARE DYING DOWN ALREADY AND T/TD SPREAD ONLY 2DEG AT SOME
STNS. CLRG SHUD START AFT 19Z WRN STNS AND AROUND SS ERN STATIONS.
OTW NO SIG CHNGS. WSR88D INDICATING PCPN IN CSTL WTRS TRYING TO MV
INLAND AND HAVE INCLDD SML POPS OVERNIGHT FOR SRN STNS.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 7, 7:35 AM EST, 37 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 7, 2:54 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay	66 min
Dec 7, 5:48 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Taylor	42 min
Dec 7, 6:12 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lafayette	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1996 Every 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.