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Dense Smoke Advisory 4, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 27, 20126 counties in Florida

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.

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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, 7.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2012-03-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2012-03-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -47 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
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

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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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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 27, 2:53 AM CDTFire Weather WatchTAEBay, Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington11 hr
Mar 27, 5:19 AM CDTDense Smoke AdvisoryTAELeon4 hr
Mar 27, 2:19 PM CDTRed Flag WarningTAEBay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson and 4 more27 hr

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.