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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 22, 20055 counties in Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 22, 2005, 12:58 PM EST for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 281 days. 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 22, 2005, 12:58 PM EST (17:58 UTC)
Expired: Dec 28, 2005, 6:30 PM EST
In force: 281 days
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Worth 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 22, 8:40 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 714 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 265 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 7.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000
WUUS52 KTAE 221758
SVRTAE
GAC277-287-321-221845-
/O.NEW.KTAE.SV.W.0021.050322T1758Z-050322T1845Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1258 PM EST TUE MAR 22 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN TIFT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  WESTERN TURNER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ASHBURN
  WORTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SYLVESTER

* UNTIL 145 PM EST

* AT 1253 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  SYLVESTER...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ASHBURN BY 110 PM EST...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO
IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

LAT...LON 3177 8398 3135 8385 3144 8361 3156 8350
      3181 8369 3181 8391

$$

23-MCNATT

1 follow-up statement

000 
WUUS52 KTAE 282257
SVRTAE
GAC071-075-282330-
/O.NEW.KTAE.SV.W.0021.051228T2256Z-051228T2330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
556 PM EST WED DEC 28 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN COLQUITT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
  NORTHERN COOK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA

* UNTIL 630 PM EST

* AT 555 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM    
  WAS LOCATED NEAR NORMAN PARK...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF       
  MOULTRIE...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LENOX AND STAUNTON BY 615 PM EST...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 3127 8371 3118 8369 3120 8335 3133 8345

$$

22-BARRY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 22, 8:16 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin	258 days
Mar 22, 8:48 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Mitchell	258 days
Mar 22, 9:50 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay	268 days
Mar 22, 9:59 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur	278 days
Mar 22, 10:30 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Early, Seminole	281 days
Mar 22, 12:18 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur, Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth	160 days
Mar 22, 12:47 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Miller	281 days
Mar 22, 1:07 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Tift, Worth	258 days
Mar 22, 1:12 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Early	258 days
Mar 22, 1:25 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Berrien, Lanier, Lowndes, Tift	258 days
Mar 22, 1:32 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur, Miller, Seminole	268 days
Mar 22, 1:59 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Miller, Mitchell	268 days
Mar 22, 2:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Irwin	29 min
Mar 22, 2:39 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Mitchell	277 days
Mar 22, 2:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Miller, Seminole	33 min
Mar 22, 2:52 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		83 min
Mar 22, 3:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Miller, Mitchell	36 min
Mar 22, 3:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Worth	46 min
Mar 22, 3:24 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Quitman	281 days
Mar 22, 3:46 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Tift	281 days
Mar 22, 3:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady	33 min
Mar 22, 4:01 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		119 min
Mar 22, 4:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Cook	25 min
Mar 22, 4:13 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Berrien, Clay, Quitman	281 days
Mar 22, 4:32 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Colquitt	58 min
Mar 22, 5:34 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		116 min
Mar 22, 5:58 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		32 min

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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.