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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Tallahassee, FL

October 25, 1997Dougherty County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 1997, 6:00 PM EDT for Dougherty County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 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: Oct 25, 1997, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired: Oct 25, 1997, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Dougherty County, GA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 25, 5:15 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 1051 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 513 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 222 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTLH 252158 RRA
SVRTLH
GAC095-252245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
600 PM EDT SAT OCT 25 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...DOUGHERTY COUNTY
 
AT 555 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER THE WESTERN PART OF DOUGHERTY COUNTY
NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF WALKER...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF ALBANY. THIS
STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE NEAR
ALBANY AROUND 615 PM EDT.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO
ADVANCE WARNING.

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 Oct 25, 3:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 3:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
325 PM EDT SAT OCT 25 1997

BUSY AGAIN THIS AFTN AS STRONG STORMS APPROACH THE WESTERN PORTION
OF THE CWA. APPEARS CWA WL REMAIN IN WARM SECTOR THRU 48 HRS AS CLD
FNT ONLY TO SE AL/WRN FL PANHANDLE BY END OF PERIOD. MODELS
SIMILIAR IN UPR LVLS THRU 30 HRS IN TRACKING UPR CLOSED LOW EWD
ACROSS TX PANHANDLE AND AR INTO WRN TN BY END OF PERIOD. AVN
DEVIATES AND LIFTS LOW NEWD INTO GREAT LAKES REGION. FAVORAL JET
INTERACTION LATE SUN SUGS ANOTHER ROUND SUN AFTN.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 25, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Randolph	31 min
Oct 25, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Terrell	33 min
Oct 25, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lee	30 min
Oct 25, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Worth	30 min
Oct 25, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Worth	44 min
Oct 25, 5:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Turner	48 min
Oct 25, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Tift	48 min
Oct 25, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Irwin	44 min
Oct 25, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Tift	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.