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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Tallahassee, FL

October 26, 1997Grady County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 26, 1997, 2:06 PM EST for Grady County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 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 26, 1997, 2:06 PM EST (19:06 UTC)
Expired: Oct 26, 1997, 2:45 PM EST
In force: 39 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 19:06 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 26, 11:00 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 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-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: 1593 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 494 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 246 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 8.6

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The text

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

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 26, 4:26 AM EST, 9 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 26, 4:26 AM EST, 9 hours 40 minutes before

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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 26, 6:33 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jackson	2 hr
Oct 26, 8:18 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay, Walton	12 min
Oct 26, 8:30 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Washington	30 min
Oct 26, 9:05 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Washington	25 min
Oct 26, 9:33 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jackson	62 min
Oct 26, 10:10 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay	50 min
Oct 26, 10:20 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Holmes	40 min
Oct 26, 10:36 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jackson	39 min
Oct 26, 11:05 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay	40 min
Oct 26, 11:36 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jackson	54 min
Oct 26, 11:48 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Calhoun	42 min
Oct 26, 6:26 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Wakulla	49 min
Oct 25, 8:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien	46 min
Oct 26, 11:56 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Early	34 min
Oct 26, 12:17 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur, Miller	43 min
Oct 26, 12:27 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun	48 min
Oct 26, 12:40 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Dougherty	50 min
Oct 26, 1:47 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Colquitt	43 min
Oct 26, 3:41 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Thomas	34 min
Oct 25, 8:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Dale	30 min
Oct 25, 8:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Henry, Houston	48 min
Oct 26, 10:52 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Houston	53 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.