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High Surf Advisory 6, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this high surf advisory at Aug 13, 2008, 1:43 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at Aug 13, 2008, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 2008, 1:43 AM CDT (06:43 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 13, 2008, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2008, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 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 06:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 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
- 512 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 755 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
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 Aug 12, 8:54 PM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 8:54 PM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 12, 8:44 PM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 11:50 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 13 hr | |
| Aug 13, 3:24 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Bay | 2 hr |
| Aug 13, 3:58 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 14 hr |
| Aug 13, 6:35 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 55 min | |
| Aug 13, 6:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Walton, Washington | 39 min |
| Aug 13, 7:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Liberty | 27 min |
| Aug 13, 9:12 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TAE | Wakulla | 5 days |
| Aug 13, 10:02 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 58 min | |
| Aug 13, 11:00 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 60 min | |
| Aug 13, 11:47 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 58 min | |
| Aug 13, 11:52 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 83 min | |
| Aug 13, 12:59 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 91 min | |
| Aug 13, 2:35 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 115 min | |
| Aug 13, 8:38 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Clay | 52 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.