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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 332, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 26, 2012Seminole County, Georgia; Jackson County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2012, 5:04 PM EDT for Seminole County, Georgia; Jackson County, Florida. It was in force for 41 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 26, 2012, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2012, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Jackson County, FL, Seminole County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 2537 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 736 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 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.

222 
WUUS52 KTAE 262104
SVRTAE
FLC063-GAC253-262145-
/O.NEW.KTAE.SV.W.0332.120726T2104Z-120726T2145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
404 PM CDT THU JUL 26 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  JACKSON COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA...
  WESTERN SEMINOLE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT/545 PM EDT/

* AT 403 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETECTED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
  MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MARIANNA...OR NEAR MARIANNA
  MUNICIPAL A/P...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  GREENWOOD...SIMSVILLE...ROCK CREEK...BLUE SPRING...STAR...BASCOM...
  TWO EGG...CYPRESS...DELLWOOD...LOVEDALE...BUENA VISTA...
  HORNSVILLE...GRAND RIDGE...DRAKES STILL...STEAM MILL...LAKE
  SEMINOLE...INWOOD...SNEADS...HAYNES...SEMINOLE STATE PARK...
  RIVERTURN...LITTLE HOPE...LELA...FAIRCHILD...DONALDSONVILLE A/P AND
  DESSER.

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 3100 8535 3100 8500 3102 8500 3102 8486
      3075 8486 3073 8487 3072 8486 3069 8486
      3063 8491 3064 8537
TIME...MOT...LOC 2105Z 274DEG 14KT 3084 8517

$$

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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 26, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Mitchell	40 min
Jul 26, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Decatur, Miller, Mitchell	56 min
Jul 26, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Grady, Thomas	29 min
Jul 26, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Decatur, Miller	26 min
Jul 26, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Seminole	26 min
Jul 26, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lowndes	47 min
Jul 26, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Seminole	44 min
Jul 26, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Lowndes	50 min
Jul 26, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Thomas	32 min
Jul 26, 5:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Decatur, Seminole	84 min
Jul 26, 7:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Quitman	31 min
Jul 26, 7:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	66 min
Jul 26, 7:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	61 min
Jul 26, 8:37 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		53 min
Jul 26, 2:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		57 min
Jul 26, 3:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	55 min
Jul 26, 4:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden, Jackson, Leon	64 min
Jul 26, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Liberty	46 min

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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.