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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 241, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 3, 2012Lee County, Worth County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2012, 6:23 PM EDT for Lee County, Worth County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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: Jul 3, 2012, 6:23 PM EDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2012, 6:50 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Lee County, GA, Worth County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 152 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1410 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1092 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

211 
WUUS52 KTAE 032223
SVRTAE
GAC177-321-032315-
/O.NEW.KTAE.SV.W.0241.120703T2223Z-120703T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
623 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN WORTH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
  EASTERN LEE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 618 PM EDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETECTED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
  MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PHILEMA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  20 MPH.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF BLOWING TREES DOWN IN LEE COUNTY ALONG 
HIGHWAY 195 AS WELL AS NEW YORK ROAD.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  DOLES...OAKFIELD...CHOKEE AND WARWICK

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

&&

LAT...LON 3186 8393 3184 8386 3181 8380 3177 8380
      3158 8396 3160 8400 3163 8401 3165 8400
      3165 8402 3162 8405 3167 8415 3192 8417
      3192 8392
TIME...MOT...LOC 2223Z 216DEG 19KT 3174 8399

$$

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1 follow-up statement

342 
WWUS52 KTAE 032250
SVSTAE

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
650 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012

GAC177-321-032301-
/O.CAN.KTAE.SV.W.0241.000000T0000Z-120703T2315Z/
LEE GA-WORTH GA-
650 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN WORTH AND EASTERN
LEE COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
TALLAHASSEE AT (8 5 0) 9 4 2 8 8 3 3. OR...YOU MAY CONTACT THE
NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3186 8393 3184 8386 3181 8380 3177 8380
      3158 8396 3160 8400 3163 8401 3165 8400
      3165 8402 3162 8405 3167 8415 3192 8417
      3192 8392
TIME...MOT...LOC 2251Z 216DEG 19KT 3186 8389

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay	63 min
Jul 3, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lee	39 min
Jul 3, 6:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	37 min
Jul 3, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Thomas	46 min
Jul 3, 7:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill	41 min
Jul 3, 7:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill	42 min

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.