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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 374

June 1, 1997Nassau County, Florida; 59 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 1, 1997, 4:00 PM EDT for Nassau County, Florida; 59 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 1, 1997, 4:00 PM EDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 1997, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 60 counties

Nassau County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Camden County, GA, Candler County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Echols County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Grady County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Worth County, GA

Warnings issued inside it

14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 4:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXEchols51 min
Jun 1, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBrooks, Thomas62 min
Jun 1, 4:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBerrien37 min
Jun 1, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAtkinson, Coffee67 min
Jun 1, 5:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXClinch, Echols58 min
Jun 1, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMacon, Schley, Taylor36 min
Jun 1, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilcox33 min
Jun 1, 6:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEIrwin45 min
Jun 1, 6:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCoffee51 min
Jun 1, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTelfair49 min
Jun 1, 7:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens46 min
Jun 1, 8:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMontgomery, Wheeler30 min
Jun 1, 9:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCToombs30 min
Jun 1, 9:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCEmanuel22 min

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 200 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 1997-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 710 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 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
710 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
465 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.3

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The text

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

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 11:45 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlachua, Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Citrus, Collier and 31 more6 hr

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.