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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 14, 2002Henry County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2002, 2:27 PM CDT for Henry County, Alabama. It was in force for 93 min. 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 14, 2002, 2:27 PM CDT (19:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2002, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
93 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Henry County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 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 2002-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 883 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 2002-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 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
883 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
806 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-12 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 141927
SVRTLH
ALC067-142000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
227 PM CDT FRI JUN 14 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT...

* AT 227 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  NEWVILLE...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF HEADLAND...MOVING EAST AT
  25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ABBEVILLE BY 235 PM CDT...
  HALEBURG BY 240 PM CDT...

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


LAT...LON 3148 8540 3134 8535 3133 8511 3167 8512

.END

12-WATSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 1:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEDale81 min
Jun 14, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHouston116 min
Jun 14, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHouston90 min
Jun 14, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAECoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston200 days

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 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.