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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 23, 2003Madison County, Florida; Brooks County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2003, 1:22 PM EDT for Madison County, Florida; Brooks County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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
Jul 23, 2003, 1:22 PM EDT (17:22 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 2003, 2:00 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Madison County, FL, Brooks County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 70 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 2003-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1767 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 2003-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -49 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
1767 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
640 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-43 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.

539 
WUUS52 KTAE 231722
SVRTLH
FLC079-GAC027-231800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
121 PM EDT WED JUL 23 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MADISON COUNTY IN FLORIDA
  SOUTHERN BROOKS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 200 PM EDT

* AT 121 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  PISCOLA...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF MONTICELLO...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  QUITMAN BY 140 PM EDT...

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE
DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DEADLY
LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.


LAT...LON 3050 8372 3059 8361 3065 8361 3065 8373
          3074 8374 3092 8356 3037 8326

$$

17-GOULD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 1:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJefferson25 min
Jul 23, 7:19 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE26 min
Jul 23, 1:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAELowndes37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.