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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 19, 2016Clay County, Quitman County, Randolph County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2016, 4:00 PM EDT for Clay County, Quitman County, Randolph County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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: May 19, 2016, 4:00 PM EDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2016, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Clay County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 999 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 610 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

As transmitted.

901 
WUUS52 KTAE 192000
SVRTAE
GAC061-239-243-192030-
/O.NEW.KTAE.SV.W.0121.160519T2000Z-160519T2030Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
400 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN QUITMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA...
  NORTHEASTERN CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA...
  SOUTHWESTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT

* AT 400 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF GEORGETOWN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CUTHBERT...CROSSROADS...SPRINGVALE...SPRINGVALE STATION...GARNERSVILLE...
  COLEMAN...BETHEL...MORRIS...RANDOLPH CO A/P...WATSON CROSSROADS...
  HATCHER...PETERSON HILL...MOORES CROSSROADS...COLES AND COTTON HILL.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AND CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY.
LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURE'S LEADING KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN
HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

&&

LAT...LON 3179 8511 3189 8501 3177 8470 3158 8487
TIME...MOT...LOC 2000Z 304DEG 15KT 3180 8500 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

11-MOORE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Thomas	25 min
May 19, 3:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Quitman, Randolph, Terrell	114 min
May 19, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes	26 min
May 19, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Quitman, Randolph	16 min
May 19, 4:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Quitman	116 min
May 19, 5:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Quitman	2 hr
May 19, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Mitchell	44 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.