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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 1, 2002Lafayette County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2002, 7:13 PM EDT for Lafayette County, Florida. It was in force for 48 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
Jun 1, 2002, 7:13 PM EDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2002, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
48 hr
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lafayette County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 2002-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 662 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 2002-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
662 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-164 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1134 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
51 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.

130 
WUUS52 KTAE 012313
SVRTLH
FLC067-012345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
712 PM EDT SAT JUN 1 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN FLORIDA

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT...

* AT 712 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MIDWAY...
  OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MAYO...STATIONARY.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MIDWAY BY 745 PM EDT...


LAT...LON 2984 8313 2988 8289 3005 8303 3000 8322

.END

16-DYE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 6:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEWakulla47 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.