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High Surf Advisory 8, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this high surf advisory at Sep 10, 2008, 9:43 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 25 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 10, 2008, 9:43 AM CDT (14:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2008, 10:18 AM CDT
- In force
- 25 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 14:41 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 12:00Z, 2.7 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
- 1302 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 650 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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 Sep 10, 8:58 AM CDT, 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 10, 8:58 AM CDT, 45 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 10, 4:35 AM CDT, 5 hours 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 535 AM EDT WED SEP 10 2008 ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161- GMZ730-750-755-765-770-775-111000- 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- 535 AM EDT WED SEP 10 2008 /435 AM CDT WED SEP 10 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND PANHANDLE...AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP TODAY AND TONIGHT AS TROPICAL MOISTURE SURGES NORTHWARD IN THE WAKE OF HURRICANE IKE...WHICH WILL MOVE WEST-NORTHWEST INTO THE CENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...HOWEVER A FEW STRONG STORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE MARINE WATERS. IN ADDITION...LARGE SWELLS FROM IKE WILL APPROACH THE COAST THIS AFTERNOON. THE SURF AND THREAT OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG AREA BEACHES WILL ALSO INCREASE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE COMBINATION OF STRONG ONSHORE WINDS...LARGE SWELLS...AND HIGH ASTRONOMICAL TIDES DUE TO AN APPROACHING FULL MOON...MAY LEAD TO SOME MINOR BEACH EROSION AND MINOR COASTAL FLOODING AT TIMES OF HIGH TIDES LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... HURRICANE IKE WILL CONTINUE ITS WEST-NORTHWEST MOTION...MAKING LANDFALL ALONG THE LOWER TEXAS COAST EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH A FEW OF THE STORMS AGAIN ON THURSDAY. LARGE SWELLS AND HIGH SURF WILL CONTINUE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY BEFORE CONDITIONS IMPROVE THIS WEEKEND. ONCE AGAIN...THERE WILL BE A HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS FOR AREA BEACHES ON THURSDAY. LOWER RAIN CHANCES AND WARMER TEMPERATURES WILL RETURN THIS WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK AS A DEEP LAYER RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED. 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. JAMSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2:01 PM CDT | Coastal Flood Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gulf, Wakulla | 24 hr |
| Sep 10, 2:01 PM CDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | TAE | Bay, Dixie, Jefferson, Taylor, Wakulla, Walton | 43 hr |
| Sep 10, 5:16 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 29 min | |
| Sep 10, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Wakulla | 39 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.