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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 12, 2001Tift County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2001, 11:59 AM EST for Tift County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 12, 2001, 11:59 AM EST (16:59 UTC)
Expired: Mar 12, 2001, 12:30 PM EST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Tift County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 12, 12:20 PM EST	Hail 0.88	Tifton, GA	Dime to nickel size hail at the Tift Area Academy on Highway 41 and at the Lang Farm on Rigdon-Aultman Road. Reported by the Tift County EMA.

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 nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 946 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KTAE 121700
SVRTLH
GAC277-121730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1159 AM EST MON MAR 12 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TIFT COUNTY IN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1230 PM EST...

* AT 1159 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A  
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ABOUT 9     
  MILES EAST OF SYLVESTER...  MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CHULA...TIFTON BY 1205 PM EST...
  TIFT A/P...VANCEVILLE BY 1210 PM EST...
  HARDING BY 1215 PM EST...

THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL.

HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY
MAY BE WASHED OUT.


LAT...LON 3155 8364 3135 8362 3135 8345 3152 8343
          3159 8355

.END

12-WATSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 12, 11:13 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty	32 min
Mar 12, 11:34 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Worth	26 min
Mar 12, 4:51 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Early, Miller, Seminole	24 min
Mar 12, 5:14 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur, Miller, Seminole	31 min

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