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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 27, 2011Bay County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2011, 2:56 PM CDT for Bay County, Florida. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 2011, 2:56 PM CDT (19:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2011, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Bay County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 134 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2011-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1399 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2011-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -23 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
1399 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
729 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
1 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

393 
WUUS52 KTAE 271956
SVRTAE
FLC005-272030-
/O.NEW.KTAE.SV.W.0151.110627T1956Z-110627T2030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
256 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BAY COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA...

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 254 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETECTED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING
  WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RECOTA
  BEACH...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  BAYHEAD...CAMP FLOWERS...ECONFINA...
  YOUNGSTOWN...SAUNDERS...NIXON...AND BENNETT

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

&&

LAT...LON 3044 8573 3043 8541 3025 8542 3012 8550
      3022 8570 3024 8570 3023 8572 3024 8573
      3025 8573 3029 8577 3028 8578 3028 8581
      3030 8586
TIME...MOT...LOC 1956Z 224DEG 4KT 3033 8562

$$

9-FOURNIER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 3:01 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE29 min
Jun 27, 3:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTAECalhoun35 min
Jun 27, 3:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJefferson, Leon37 min
Jun 27, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBay, Calhoun, Jackson, Washington34 min
Jun 27, 3:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEMadison33 min
Jun 27, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJefferson, Leon27 min
Jun 27, 4:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTAELeon36 min
Jun 27, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAECalhoun, Jackson28 min
Jun 27, 5:03 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE42 min
Jun 27, 5:42 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE63 min
Jun 27, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEFranklin, Wakulla40 min
Jun 27, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJefferson, Madison29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2011Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2011

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.