Alert archive / Florida / High Surf Advisories in 2008
High Surf Advisory 3, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this high surf advisory at Mar 4, 2008, 1:25 AM CST for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 28 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 2008, 1:25 AM CST (07:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2008, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 28 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1267 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high surf advisory 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 high surf advisory went out at Mar 3, 7:00 PM CST, 6 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 7:00 PM CST, 6 hours 25 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 3, 5:00 AM CST, 20 hours 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 600 AM EST MON MAR 3 2008 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE LATE TONIGHT FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND THE EASTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE... ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER TUESDAY ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION... ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161- GMZ730-750-755-765-770-775-041100- COFFEE-DALE-HENRY-GENEVA-HOUSTON-INLAND WALTON-COASTAL WALTON- HOLMES-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-BAY-CALHOUN-GULF-FRANKLIN-GADSDEN-LEON- JEFFERSON-MADISON-LIBERTY-WAKULLA-TAYLOR-LAFAYETTE-DIXIE-QUITMAN- CLAY-RANDOLPH-TERRELL-DOUGHERTY-LEE-WORTH-TURNER-TIFT-BEN HILL- IRWIN-EARLY-MILLER-BAKER-MITCHELL-COLQUITT-COOK-BERRIEN-SEMINOLE- DECATUR-GRADY-THOMAS-BROOKS-LOWNDES-LANIER- APALACHEE BAY OR COASTAL WATERS FROM KEATON BEACH TO OCHLOCKONEE RIVER FL OUT TO 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM APALACHICOLA TO DESTIN FL OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM OCHLOCKONEE RIVER TO APALACHICOLA FL OUT TO 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM SUWANNEE RIVER TO KEATON BEACH OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM APALACHICOLA TO DESTIN FL FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM SUWANNEE RIVER TO APALACHICOLA FL FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 600 AM EST MON MAR 3 2008 /500 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...AND THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND PANHANDLE...AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... PARTLY CLOUDY AND BREEZY CONDITIONS WILL BE IN STORE FOR THE REGION TODAY AS A STORM SYSTEM GATHERS STRENGTH ACROSS THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. SUSTAINED WINDS OUT OF THE SOUTHEAST WILL BUILD TO 15 TO 20 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION. THIS WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS ON AREA LAKES. BOATERS ARE URGED TO EXERCISE CAUTION IF VENTURING OUT ON AREA LAKES TODAY. A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE EAST INTO THE SOUTHEAST LATER TONIGHT WITH A SQUALL LINE DEVELOPING AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. THIS SQUALL LINE WILL RACE EASTWARD ACROSS THE CENTRAL GULF COAST STATES AND APPROACH SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND THE EASTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE JUST BEFORE DAYBREAK. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THIS SQUALL LINE AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE SQUALL LINE AND ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP AHEAD OF IT WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...ISOLATED TORNADOES AND LARGE HAIL. AT THIS TIME THIS PROBABILITY FOR GETTING SEVERE WEATHER WITHIN 25 MILES OF A POINT IS ABOUT 15 PERCENT. MARINERS VENTURING INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO WATERS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION THIS MORNING. WINDS AND SEAS WILL CONTINUE TO BUILD INTO THE AFTERNOON AND EXCEED SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CRITERIA. WINDS MAY OCCASIONALLY GUST TO GALE FORCE AFTER MIDNIGHT ACROSS THE MARINE AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... AN ONGOING SQUALL LINE AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS THE REGION TUESDAY MORNING AND INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS. THE LATEST COMPUTER MODELS ARE INDICATING THAT BETTER INSTABILITY MAY DEVELOP ACROSS THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA AROUND MIDDAY TUESDAY. THIS WOULD ALLOW THE SQUALL LINE TO INTENSIFY THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON HOURS. EVEN IF THIS DOES NOT OCCUR...THE SQUALL LINE WILL STILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...ISOLATED TORNADOES AND LARGE HAIL. THE COLD FRONT AND SQUALL LINE WILL MOVE EAST OF THE REGION AFTER SUNSET BRINGING IN A MUCH COOLER AIRMASS. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN COOL ON WEDNESDAY AND RETURN TO NEAR NORMAL ON THURSDAY. AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL DEVELOP IN THE SOUTHERN GULF OF MEXICO ON THURSDAY NIGHT AND MOVE ACROSS THE FLORIDA PENINSULA ON FRIDAY. THIS SYSTEM WILL BRING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS TO THE REGION. DRY WEATHER WILL RETURN FOR THE WEEKEND. HAZARDOUS MARINE CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING WHEN HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER THE WATERS. WINDS AND SEAS WILL INCREASE OUT OF THE NORTH ON FRIDAY AS AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE MOVES NORTHEAST ACROSS THE FLORIDA PENINSULA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SEVERE WEATHER IS LIKELY AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT ACROSS THE EASTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SPOTTERS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE WEATHER AND THE LATEST FORECASTS ISSUED ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SYSTEM. SPOTTERS SHOULD CONSIDER THEMSELVES ACTIVATED AT THE FIRST ISSUANCE OF A WATCH OR WARNING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED INTO TUESDAY AS WELL. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WEATHER.GOV...THEN CLICK ON YOUR AREA OF INTEREST ON THE NATIONAL MAP. 38-GODSEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 4:08 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 34 hr |
| Mar 4, 5:49 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 56 min | |
| Mar 4, 9:12 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 63 min | |
| Mar 4, 9:45 AM CST | River Flood Advisory | TAE | Jefferson, Madison, Taylor | 4 days |
| Mar 4, 1:50 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 40 hr |
Nearby
High Surf Advisories in Florida, 2008Every high surf advisory in 2008
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.