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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 24, 1997Washington County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1997, 12:58 PM CST for Washington County, Florida. It was in force for 32 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
Jan 24, 1997, 12:58 PM CST (18:58 UTC)
Expired
Jan 24, 1997, 1:30 PM CST
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Washington County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 1997-01-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-01-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 149 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1138 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
277 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jan 24, 8:51 AM CST, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 24, 8:51 AM CST, 4 hours 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
945 AM EST FRI JAN 24 1997

BIG QUESTION TODAY IS TIMING OF LINE OF STORMS. PH PORTION OF LINE
LAGGING AS S AL PORTIONS ACCELERATES EASTWARLD. CURRENT LIKELY OR
HIGHER POPS ACROSS PH/S AL/SW GA LOOK GOOD. LOOKS NOW LIKE SOME
STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO THE BIG BEND THIS AFTN. WOULD PREFER
HIGHER POPS IN THE BIG BEND...ESPECIALLY WRN PORTIONS.

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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.