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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 25, 1996Decatur County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1996, 1:05 PM EST for Decatur County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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
Mar 25, 1996, 1:05 PM EST (18:05 UTC)
Expired
Mar 25, 1996, 1:45 PM EST
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Decatur County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 189 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, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-03-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 64 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, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-03-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 276 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
64 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-269 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
701 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
276 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
377 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 25, 11:26 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHolmes, Walton49 min
Mar 25, 11:50 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJackson, Washington55 min
Mar 25, 12:38 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAECalhoun52 min
Mar 25, 12:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJackson15 min
Mar 25, 1:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEGadsden, Liberty40 min
Mar 25, 1:22 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAELeon53 min
Mar 25, 2:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJefferson48 min
Mar 25, 3:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEMadison48 min
Mar 25, 12:38 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAESeminole52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.