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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 6, 1996Turner County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1996, 2:46 PM EST for Turner County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report 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: Mar 6, 1996, 2:46 PM EST (19:46 UTC)
Expired: Mar 6, 1996, 3:15 PM EST
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Turner County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 6, 3:00 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashburn, GA

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 503 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 307 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KTLH 061948 RRA
SVRTLH
GAC287-062015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
246 PM EST WED MAR 6 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN TURNER COUNTY
 
AT 245 PM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
SOUTHEAST TURNER COUNTY...SOUTHEAST OF ASHBURN. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE
LARGE HAIL. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
 
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO
ADVANCE WARNING.

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 Mar 6, 10:19 AM EST, 4 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 10:19 AM EST, 4 hours 27 minutes before

ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-061715-

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1015 AM EST WED MAR 6 1996

CRNT FCST PKG LOOKS FINE...EXCEPT POPS FOR BIG BEND FOR THIS AFTN SEE:M
A LTL HIGH SINCE MOST ACTIVITY APPEARS TO BE WELL TO NORTH AND
WEST...AND NOT MUCH DVLPMNT ACRS FL AS ENERGY MOVES NE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 6, 10:58 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Worth	32 min
Mar 6, 11:06 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Turner	39 min
Mar 6, 1:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Turner	30 min
Mar 6, 1:54 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Turner	36 min
Mar 6, 2:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Irwin	51 min
Mar 6, 2:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill	33 min
Mar 6, 2:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Tift, Worth	33 min
Mar 6, 3:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Irwin	30 min
Mar 6, 3:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien	37 min
Mar 6, 4:56 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Seminole	34 min
Mar 6, 5:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty	30 min
Mar 6, 5:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Worth	47 min
Mar 6, 6:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Thomas	50 min
Mar 6, 6:49 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Grady	26 min
Mar 6, 6:54 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur	36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.