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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Tallahassee, FL

April 8, 2006Lanier County, Lowndes County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 2006, 6:02 PM EDT for Lanier County, Lowndes County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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: Apr 8, 2006, 6:02 PM EDT (22:02 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 2006, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Lanier County, GA, Lowndes County, GA

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 Apr 8, 3:16 PM EDT, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 3:16 PM EDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 8, 4:49 AM EDT, 13 hours 13 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 8, 3:39 PM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 8, 4:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 8, 5:45 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 8, 5:52 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
552 PM EDT SAT APR 8 2006

ALZ069-082230-
HOUSTON-
552 PM EDT SAT APR 8 2006

...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS IN EFFECT FOR HOUSTON COUNTY...

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

AT 449 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF COTTONWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS UP TO 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

ALSO...NEARLY CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH
THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES
NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE
CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

38-GODSEY

Special weather statement, Apr 8, 5:54 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 8, 6:00 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
600 PM EDT SAT APR 8 2006

...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT FOR SECTIONS OF
SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA AND FOR MUCH OF THE FLORIDA BIG BEND...

THE TORNADO WATCH 176 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES

IN GEORGIA
GRADY...THOMAS..BROOKS AND LOWNDES

IN FLORIDA
FRANKLIN...WAKULLA...LEON...JEFFERSON...MADISON...LAFAYETTE...
TAYLOR AND DIXIE

AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS

STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST INTO THE
EVENING ACROSS THE WATCH AREA.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 8, 12:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Walton	39 min
Apr 8, 12:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes	54 min
Apr 8, 2:08 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		66 min
Apr 8, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Walton, Washington	34 min
Apr 8, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		114 min
Apr 8, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Madison	24 min
Apr 8, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Madison	20 min
Apr 8, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Madison	20 min
Apr 8, 7:19 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		56 min
Apr 8, 12:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Quitman	31 min
Apr 8, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Mitchell	30 min
Apr 8, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Tift, Worth	23 min
Apr 8, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Mitchell	50 min
Apr 8, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Irwin, Tift	30 min
Apr 8, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Grady	25 min
Apr 8, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Cook	46 min
Apr 8, 5:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Brooks, Thomas	26 min
Apr 8, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lowndes	30 min
Apr 8, 1:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee	33 min
Apr 8, 2:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Henry	36 min
Apr 8, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Houston	36 min
Apr 8, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Geneva, Houston	34 min

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