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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 19, 2001Coffee County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2001, 4:56 PM CDT for Coffee County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 2001, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2001, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Coffee County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 199 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 2001-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1027 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2001-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1027 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

705 
WUUS52 KTAE 192156
SVRTLH
ALC031-192245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
456 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COFFEE COUNTY IN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT...

* AT 456 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL OVER CLINTONVILLE...OR ABOUT 7
  MILES NORTHWEST OF ENTERPRISE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  TABERNACLE...MIXONS CROSSROADS BY 500 PM CDT...
  VICTORIA BY 515 PM CDT...
  JACK BY 520 PM CDT...
  NEW HOPE BY 530 PM CDT...
  ROETON BY 540 PM CDT...

THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL.


LAT...LON 3146 8601 3134 8584 3162 8579 3162 8606

.END

17-GOULD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHenry40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.