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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 31, 1996Dixie County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 1996, 12:48 PM EST for Dixie County, Florida. It was in force for 42 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 31, 1996, 12:48 PM EST (17:48 UTC)
Expired
Mar 31, 1996, 1:30 PM EST
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Dixie County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 141 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 12:00Z on 1996-03-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 16 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 12:00Z on 1996-03-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 129 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
16 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-394 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
522 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
209 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

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 31, 10:30 AM EST, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 10:30 AM EST, 2 hours 18 minutes before
ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-GAZ121>131-142>148-155>161-310900-

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1030 AM EST SUN MAR 31 1996

NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO PREVIOUS PACKAGE. WSR-88D CURRENTLY
SHOWING ONLY ISOLATED SHOWERS OVER THE LAND AREAS... WITH MOST
OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER THE GULF WATERS. THE TRAILING
EDGE OF THE LOW CLOUD MASS HAS REACHED S MISSISSIPPI AND EXPECT
BKN CLDS WL CONT OVER FA MOST OF AFTN.

#4

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 31, 12:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAELeon54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 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.