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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 24, 1996Early County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1996, 7:01 AM EST for Early County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 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: Jan 24, 1996, 7:01 AM EST (12:01 UTC)
Expired: Jan 24, 1996, 7:45 AM EST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Early County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 986 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 423 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 474 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KTLH 241203 RRA
SVRTLH
ALC069-GAC099-241245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
701 AM EST (601 AM CST) WED JAN 24 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 AM EST (645 AM CST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
 
   ...HOUSTON COUNTY
 
 
IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...EARLY COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN HOUSTON COUNTY OF
SOUTHEAST ALABAMA. THIS STORM IS 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF COTTONWOOD OR 15
MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOTHAN. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 TO
40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO EARLY COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA IN
ABOUT 10 MINUTES.
 
DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING
ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. A MOBILE HOME IS NOT A SAFE REFUGE FROM A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...MOVE TO A MORE SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING.

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 Jan 24, 2:20 AM EST, 4 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 24, 2:20 AM EST, 4 hours 41 minutes before

ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-240945-

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
220 AM EST WED JAN 24 1996

MDLS TAKE SFC LOW CRNTLY OVR N IND INTO SE CANADA WITH ASSOC TRAILING
COLD FRONT MOVG FROM CNTRL GLF CST INTO CNTL FL BY 00Z THU. THNK THE
BULK OF THE WX SHUD OCCUR ACRS THE FCST AREA BETWEEN 12 AND 18Z. AFTER
FRNTL SYSTEM MOVES THRU THE STATE...HIGH PRES MOVES INTO EASTERN U.S.
WITH ANOTHER LOW MOVING INTO MIDWEST AND TROF AXIS EXTENDING INTO THE
SOUTHERN PLAINS BY 48 HRS.

GRIDDED DATA INDICATES PLENTY OF MSTR FLUX CONVRGNC AND MSTR TRNSPRT
AHEAD OF THE FRONT TDY. SELS SVR WX OUTLOOK PLACES FCST AREA IN SLGHT
RISK FOR SVR TSTMS. THNK IF SVR WX DOES DVLP IT WILL LIKELY OCCUR IN
NRTHRN PORTIONS OF CWA SINCE MDLS INDICATE DYNAMICS AND FORCING MAINLY
TO THE NORTH OF AREA. FORCING IS MORE PRONOUNCED BY ETA WHICH SHOWS Q-VECTOR FORCING FROM IND TO CNTRL GLF/W PORTION OF CWA BY 12Z. AFTER
12Z NGM AND ETA SWEEP Q-VECTOR FORCING OFF TO THE NE. IN ADDITION
VVEL'S SEEM RATHER WEAK ACRS FA...BUT SIGNIFICANT VALUES ARE EVIDENT
FARTHER NORTH. ANOTHER FACTOR WHICH MAY PUT A DAMPER ON SVR WEATHER IS
LACK OF SIGNIFIANT INSTABILITY. LI'S ARE MARGINAL AT BEST FROM BOTH
NGM AND ETA. WIND PROFILES HOWEVER DO LOOK FAVORABLE...NOT ALOT OF
DIRECTIONAL SHEAR BUT SIGNIFICANT SPEED SHEAR IS INDICATED BY MODELS.

1) 62/32/60 600
2) 67/38/61 500
3) 68/35/63 500

Nearby

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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.