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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 6, 1996Thomas County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1996, 7:35 PM EST for Thomas County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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, 7:35 PM EST (00:35 UTC)
Expired
Mar 6, 1996, 8:00 PM EST
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Thomas County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 6, 7:50 PM ESTThunderstorm WindPavo, 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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 63 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 00:00Z on 1996-03-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1365 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 00:00Z on 1996-03-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 246 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
1365 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
246 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
323 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.9
Supercell composite
11.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KTLH 070036 RRA
SVRTLH
GAC275-070100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
735 PM EST WED MAR 6 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...NORTHERN THOMAS COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
IN NORTHERN THOMAS COUNTY BETWEEN THOMASVILLE AND COOLIDGE. THIS STORM
IS MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH AND WILL REACH PAVO BY AROUND 745 PM EST.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS OF 58 MPH OR HIGHER... LARGE
HAIL... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM... GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 7:12 PM ESTTornado WarningTAEGrady33 min
Mar 7, 9:51 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEGrady, Mitchell39 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.