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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 4, 2002Gadsden County, Florida; Decatur County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 7:34 PM EDT for Gadsden County, Florida; Decatur County, Georgia. It was in force for 10 days. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 2002, 7:34 PM EDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2002, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 10 days
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Gadsden County, FL, Decatur County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 14, 3:02 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	De Funiak Spgs, FL	Numerous downed power lines reported by DeFuniak Springs Police.

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

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 48 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: 141 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -265 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1605 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 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.

000 
WUUS52 KTAE 042334
SVRTLH
FLC039-GAC087-050015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
734 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN GADSDEN COUNTY IN FLORIDA
  SOUTHEASTERN DECATUR COUNTY IN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT...

* AT 734 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 2 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF DARSEY...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTH OF TALLAHASSEE...
  MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

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

THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL.

LAT...LON 3063 8438 3069 8433 3077 8441 3071 8449

.END

22-BARRY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	90 min
Jun 4, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dixie	67 min
Jun 4, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson	33 min
Jun 4, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes	3 hr
Jun 3, 9:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Tift	18 hr
Jun 3, 10:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Cook	18 hr
Jun 3, 10:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Lee, Worth	18 hr
Jun 4, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Quitman, Randolph	83 min
Jun 4, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Quitman	90 min
Jun 4, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Terrell	73 min
Jun 4, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Early	76 min
Jun 4, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Early	29 min
Jun 4, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur	82 min
Jun 4, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Early	32 min
Jun 4, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady	2 hr
Jun 4, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Mitchell	10 days

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2002 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2002 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.