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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 31, 2002Mitchell County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2002, 6:34 PM EST for Mitchell County, Georgia. It was in force for 70 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 31, 2002, 6:34 PM EST (23:34 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2002, 5:00 PM EST
In force: 70 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mitchell County, GA

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 31, 1:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 74 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: 1340 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 433 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 242 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 6.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KTAE 312334
SVRTLH
GAC205-010000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
633 PM EST SUN MAR 31 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 700 PM EST...

* AT 633 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER
  PELHAM...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PEBBLE CITY BY 640 PM EST...
  SALE CITY BY 645 PM EST...

THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS DAMAGING WINDS. LARGE HAIL IS ALSO
POSSIBLE.


LAT...LON 3116 8421 3108 8416 3109 8401 3131 8400

.END

12-WATSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 31, 3:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Worth	3 hr
Mar 31, 4:50 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		115 min
Mar 31, 5:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Early	84 min
Mar 31, 5:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Lee	32 min
Mar 31, 6:02 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Mitchell	28 min
Mar 31, 6:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Grady	53 min
Mar 31, 6:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Grady	50 min
Mar 31, 6:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Worth	66 min
Mar 31, 6:26 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Mar 31, 6:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt	70 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.