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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 6, 1996Jackson County, Florida; Seminole County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Mar 6, 1996, 3:56 PM CST for Jackson County, Florida; Seminole County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 6, 1996, 3:56 PM CST (21:56 UTC)
Expired: Mar 6, 1996, 4:30 PM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Jackson County, FL, Seminole County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 6, 4:00 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwood, FL

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 88 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: 243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 503 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 307 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTLH 062158
TORTLH
FLC063-GAC253-062230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
456 PM EST (356 PM CST) WED MAR 6 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM EST (430 PM CST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
 
   ...JACKSON COUNTY
 
 
IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...SEMINOLE COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN
NORTHEAST JACKSON COUNTY OF FLORIDA EAST OF BASCOM. THIS STORM WILL BE
MOVING INTO SEMINOLE COUNTY OF GEORGIA SHORTLY.
 
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 YOUR 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 6, 2:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jackson	33 min
Mar 6, 3:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson	14 min
Mar 6, 3:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson	29 min
Mar 6, 9:58 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Worth	32 min
Mar 6, 10:06 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Turner	39 min
Mar 6, 12:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Turner	30 min
Mar 6, 12:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Turner	36 min
Mar 6, 1:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Irwin	51 min
Mar 6, 1:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill	33 min
Mar 6, 1:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Tift, Worth	33 min
Mar 6, 1:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Turner	29 min
Mar 6, 2:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Irwin	30 min
Mar 6, 2:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien	37 min
Mar 6, 4:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty	30 min
Mar 6, 4:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Worth	47 min
Mar 6, 5:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Thomas	50 min
Mar 6, 5:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Grady	26 min
Mar 6, 5:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur	36 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.