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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 9, 2008, 5:45 PM EDT for Turner County, Georgia. It was in force for 19 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
- Oct 9, 2008, 5:45 PM EDT (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 9, 2008, 6:04 PM EDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Turner County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1076 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 543 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
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 Oct 9, 2:43 PM EDT, 3 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 9, 2:43 PM EDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 9, 6:01 AM EDT, 11 hours 44 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 601 AM EDT THU OCT 9 2008 ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161- GMZ730-750-755-765-770-775-100900- 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- 601 AM EDT THU OCT 9 2008 /501 AM CDT THU OCT 9 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... A POTENT UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL SLOWLY DRIFT SOUTH AND EAST ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA THROUGH THIS EVENING. AREAS UNDER AND AHEAD OF THIS FEATURE WILL STILL RUN THE RISK OF WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE BEST CHANCES OF A SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM WILL BE TO THE EAST OF THE APALACHICOLA RIVER WITH THE ACTIVITY PEAKING DURING THE LATER MORNING AND AFTERNOON HOURS. A FEW OF THE STORMS LATER TODAY WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE ON THE STRONG SIDE...ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTH-CENTRAL GEORGIA AND THE EASTERN FLORIDA BIG BEND. THE MAIN THREATS FROM ANY STRONGER STORMS WILL INCLUDE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION... ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE FAR EASTERN ZONES TOWARD THE I-75 CORRIDOR. THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS SHOULD DIMINISH IN BOTH COVERAGE AND INTENSITY AFTER SUNSET. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING SOUTHWARD INTO THE NORTHEAST GULF OF MEXICO DURING THIS UPCOMING WEEKEND WILL INCREASE THE PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS THE REGION. AS A RESULT EASTERLY FLOW WILL INCREASE TO CAUTIONARY LEVELS ACROSS THE MARINE ZONES BY LATER SATURDAY. PERIODS OF ADVISORY LEVELS WINDS AND SEAS ARE BECOMING MORE AND MORE LIKELY BY LATER SATURDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUING INTO THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER THIS MORNING OR AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTHERN GEORGIA AND THE FLORIDA BIG BEND. 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. 14-MROCZKA
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 9, 4:56 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 8:20 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 55 min | |
| Oct 8, 10:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lafayette | 24 min |
| Oct 9, 8:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Lanier | 29 min |
| Oct 9, 9:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Irwin, Tift | 41 min |
| Oct 9, 9:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Irwin, Turner | 36 min |
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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.