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Dense Smoke Advisory 4, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this dense smoke advisory at Mar 27, 2012, 2:25 PM CDT for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Mar 28, 2012, 12:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 2012, 2:25 PM CDT (19:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 28, 2012, 12:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2012, 2:22 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Leon County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 1943 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this dense smoke advisory 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 dense smoke advisory went out at Mar 27, 5:30 AM CDT, 8 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 27, 5:30 AM CDT, 8 hours 55 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 27, 2:01 AM CDT, 12 hours 24 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 301 AM EDT TUE MAR 27 2012 ALZ065>068-FLZ007>009-018-019-028-029-034-108-118-128-134- GAZ120>131-142>148-158>161-GMZ730-750-755-765-770-775-280300- COFFEE-DALE-HENRY-GENEVA-INLAND WALTON-CENTRAL WALTON-HOLMES- INLAND JEFFERSON-MADISON-INLAND TAYLOR-LAFAYETTE-INLAND DIXIE- SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL JEFFERSON-COASTAL TAYLOR-COASTAL DIXIE- QUITMAN-CLAY-RANDOLPH-CALHOUN-TERRELL-DOUGHERTY-LEE-WORTH-TURNER- TIFT-BEN HILL-IRWIN-EARLY-MILLER-BAKER-MITCHELL-COLQUITT-COOK- BERRIEN-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- 301 AM EDT TUE MAR 27 2012 /201 AM CDT TUE MAR 27 2012/ 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... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. 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. ALZ069-FLZ010>017-026-027-112-114-115-127-GAZ155>157-280300- HOUSTON-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-INLAND BAY-CALHOUN-INLAND GULF- INLAND FRANKLIN-GADSDEN-LEON-LIBERTY-INLAND WAKULLA-COASTAL BAY- COASTAL GULF-COASTAL FRANKLIN-COASTAL WAKULLA-SEMINOLE-DECATUR- GRADY- 301 AM EDT TUE MAR 27 2012 /201 AM CDT TUE MAR 27 2012/ 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... SMOKE FROM A CONTROLLED BURN IN SOUTHWEST LEON COUNTY WILL CAUSE REDUCED VISIBILITIES THIS MORNING FOR PORTIONS OF LEON AND WAKULLA COUNTIES. ADDITIONALLY...SMOKE FROM ANOTHER SLIGHTLY SMALLER FIRE LOCATED IN COASTAL GULF COUNTIES HAS CAUSED PERIODIC VISIBILITY HAZARDS ALONG THE PANHANDLE COAST FROM GULF COUNTY WEST TO PANAMA CITY. ELSEWHERE...SMOKE IS PRIMARILY AN AIR QUALITY ISSUE. BY MID MORNING...THE SMOKE WILL BEGIN TO LIFT AND THIN OUT WITH THE HEATING OF THE AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...IT WILL STILL BE PRESENT TO THE SENSES ALL AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. 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. HARRIGAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2:53 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 11 hr |
| Mar 27, 5:19 AM CDT | Dense Smoke Advisory | TAE | Leon | 4 hr |
| Mar 27, 2:19 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson and 4 more | 27 hr |
Nearby
Dense Smoke Advisories in Florida, 2012Every dense smoke advisory in 2012
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.