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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 16, 1996Tift County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 1996, 4:51 PM EST for Tift County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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Issued
Mar 16, 1996, 4:51 PM EST (21:51 UTC)
Expired
Mar 16, 1996, 5:30 PM EST
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Tift County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 231 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1996-03-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 89 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1996-03-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
89 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
747 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.