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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 436, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 23, 2015Berrien County, Lanier County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2015, 3:23 PM EDT for Berrien County, Lanier County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 23, 2015, 3:23 PM EDT (19:23 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 2015, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Berrien County, GA, Lanier County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 156 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2015-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1979 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2015-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -30 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
1979 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
667 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 23, 10:40 AM EDT, 4 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 10:40 AM EDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 23, 12:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEDixie, Lafayette42 min
Aug 23, 2:57 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2015Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.