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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 28, 1996Grady County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1996, 11:33 AM EDT for Grady County, Georgia. 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
May 28, 1996, 11:33 AM EDT (15:33 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1996, 12:15 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Grady County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 221 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 1996-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2110 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 1996-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 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
2110 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
829 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.2

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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
May 28, 7:59 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEIrwin31 min
May 28, 10:47 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEColquitt43 min
May 28, 11:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAELanier31 min

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.