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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 12, 2008Lafayette County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2008, 5:28 PM EDT for Lafayette County, Florida. It was in force for 47 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
Jun 12, 2008, 5:28 PM EDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2008, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Lafayette County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 265 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2008-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 637 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2008-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
637 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1159 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 5:07 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTAEMadison181 days
Jun 11, 8:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBaker, Decatur, Grady, Mitchell46 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.