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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 197, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 30, 2008, 7:15 AM EST for Taylor County, Florida. It was in force for 30 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
- Nov 30, 2008, 7:15 AM EST (12:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 30, 2008, 7:45 AM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Taylor County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 4:59 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 996 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Nov 30, 4:50 AM EST, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 30, 4:50 AM EST, 2 hours 25 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 30, 5:27 AM EST, 1 hour 48 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 527 AM EST SUN NOV 30 2008 ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161- GMZ730-750-755-765-770-775-011030- 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- 527 AM EST SUN NOV 30 2008 /427 AM CST SUN NOV 30 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... ...TORNADO WATCH IS EFFECT UNTIL NOON EST FOR MOST OF FL BIG BEND AND PORTIONS OF S/CNTRL GA. ...HIGH SURF ADVISORY FOR THE BEACHES OF WALTON...BAY...GULF...AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES... ...COASTAL FLOOD WATCH FOR TAYLOR AND DIXIE COUNTY COASTLINES... ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT... A COLD FRONT AND SQUALL LINE WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA TODAY BRINGING NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY A TORNADO...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE EASTERN BIG BEND AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS MORNING. HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE THIS MORNING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL GENERALLY BE 1 TO 2 INCHES...BUT LOCAL AMOUNTS UP TO 4 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE...WHICH COULD CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. RAIN CHANCES WILL SLOWLY TAPER OFF FROM WEST TO EAST BY THIS EVENING AS THE COLD FRONT EXITS THE AREA TO THE EAST. STRONG ONSHORE WINDS WILL CAUSE TIDES OF 1 TO 2 FEET ABOVE NORMAL ALONG PORTIONS OF THE NORTHEAST GULF COAST...AS WELL AS HIGH WINDS AND SEAS AND DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS. BEHIND THE FRONT...MARINE WINDS AND SEAS WILL RAPIDLY DETERIORATE CREATING HAZARDOUS MARINE CONDITIONS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...A FEW LINGERING SHOWERS OR DRIZZLE REMAINS POSSIBLE ON MONDAY. OTHERWISE HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD EAST INTO THE LOCAL REGION. EXPECT CLEARING SKIES AND A MUCH DRIER AND COOLER AIRMASS THROUGH MIDWEEK. TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO DROP BACK DOWN TO AROUND FREEZING POSSIBLY MONDAY NIGHT AND ESPECIALLY TUESDAY NIGHT...THEN GRADUALLY TREND BACK TO NORMAL INTO THE WEEKEND. SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ARE ACTIVATED...AND SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER... ESPECIALLY THIS MORNING AND ACROSS THE TORNADO WATCH AREA. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE AT 850 942-8833 (35) 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. BLOCK
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 30, 7:01 AM EST, 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 6:01 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Taylor | 29 min |
| Nov 30, 6:24 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 21 min | |
| Nov 30, 7:17 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 118 min | |
| Nov 30, 9:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dixie | 46 min |
| Nov 30, 9:20 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 40 min | |
| Nov 30, 3:45 PM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | TAE | Dixie, Taylor | 13 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.