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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Oct 18, 2011, 7:37 PM EDT for Taylor County, Florida. It was in force for 38 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
- Oct 18, 2011, 7:37 PM EDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2011, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
County Taylor County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 415 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Oct 18, 6:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 18, 6:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 542 PM EDT TUE OCT 18 2011 ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-108-112-114-115-118-127-128-134- GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161-GMZ730-750-755-765-770-775-191100- COFFEE-DALE-HENRY-GENEVA-HOUSTON-INLAND WALTON-CENTRAL WALTON- HOLMES-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-INLAND BAY-CALHOUN-INLAND GULF- INLAND FRANKLIN-GADSDEN-LEON-INLAND JEFFERSON-MADISON-LIBERTY- INLAND WAKULLA-INLAND TAYLOR-LAFAYETTE-INLAND DIXIE-SOUTH WALTON- COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF-COASTAL FRANKLIN-COASTAL JEFFERSON- COASTAL WAKULLA-COASTAL TAYLOR-COASTAL 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- 518 AM EDT TUE OCT 18 2011 /418 AM CDT TUE OCT 18 2011/ 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...TONIGHT... ...THERE IS A CHANCE FOR TORNADOES THROUGH THIS EVENING OVER PARTS OF THE FLORIDA BIG BEND NEAR THE COAST... ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF THE FLORIDA BIG BEND NEAR THE COAST... ...THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND PANHANDLE BEACHES... ...A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR ALL OF THE COASTAL WATERS... AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE LOCAL AREA...AND A LARGE AREA OF TROPICAL LOW PRESSURE IN THE NORTHEAST GULF OF MEXICO WILL MOVE NORTHWARD TOWARDS OUR REGION TONIGHT. THIS COMBINATION WILL GENERATE SOME SEVERE STORMS INCLUDING POSSIBLE TORNADOES AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL INTO THE LATE EVENING AREAS. THE FOCUS WILL BE ACROSS THE EASTERN BIG BEND. ALSO...UNTIL THE FRONT EXITS EAST AND THE WINDS SHIFT TO OFFSHORE MINOR FLOODING REMAINS POSSIBLE. LARGE SWELLS FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO WILL PRODUCE BREAKING WAVES OF 3 TO 5 FEET WITH HIGHER SETS AT THE BEACHES...MAKING FOR A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. MUCH COOLER AND DRIER AIR WILL BUILD INTO THE REGION FROM THE NORTHWEST ON WEDNESDAY WITH GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS. FAIR...COOL...AND DRY WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE REST OF THE PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY. 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, Oct 18, 6:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 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 18, 2:51 AM EDT | Rip Current Statement | TAE | Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Walton | 26 hr |
| Oct 18, 4:58 AM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 24 hr |
| Oct 18, 2:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Franklin | 2 hr |
| Oct 18, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Oct 18, 4:26 PM EDT | Gale Warning | TAE | 23 hr | |
| Oct 18, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin | 36 min |
| Oct 18, 5:10 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Oct 18, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Wakulla | 43 min |
| Oct 18, 5:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Wakulla | 32 min |
| Oct 18, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 43 min |
| Oct 18, 7:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 63 min |
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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.