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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Tallahassee, FL

October 25, 1997Tift County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 25, 1997, 7:47 PM EDT for Tift County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 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: Oct 25, 1997, 7:47 PM EDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired: Oct 25, 1997, 8:35 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Tift County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 25, 8:10 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Tifton, GA	Severe thunderstorm winds downed numerous large tree limbs.

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 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 252344 RRA
SVRTLH
GAC277-260035-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
747 PM EDT SAT OCT 25 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE FL HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 835 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

   ...TIFT COUNTY
 
AT 746 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY TALLAHASSEE
DOPPLER RADAR MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...
TIFTON                    BY 803 PM EDT
BROOKFIELD                BY 821 PM EDT
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNINGp... AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DONT
DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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, 4 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 3:25 PM EDT, 4 hours 22 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, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty	45 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

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.