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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 6, 1996Grady County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 6, 1996, 7:12 PM EST for Grady County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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 6, 1996, 7:12 PM EST (00:12 UTC)
Expired
Mar 6, 1996, 7:45 PM EST
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Grady County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 53 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 00:00Z on 1996-03-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1365 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 00:00Z on 1996-03-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 246 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
1365 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
246 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
323 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.9
Supercell composite
11.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTLH 070014
TORTLH
GAC131-070045-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
712 PM EST WED MAR 6 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...GRADY COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
MOVING INTO GRADY COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST
AT ABOUT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE NEAR THE TOWN OF PEOPLES STILL BY ABOUT
720 PM EST.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS UNDER
STURDY FURNITURE IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE
PILLOWS TO COVER Y8OUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. A MOBILE HOME IS NOT A
SAFE REFUGE FROM A TORNADO. MOVE TO A MORE SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 7:35 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEThomas25 min
Mar 7, 9:51 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEGrady, Mitchell39 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.