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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Mar 23, 2012, 3:05 PM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 25 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
- Mar 23, 2012, 3:05 PM CDT (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2012, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
County Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 758 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 800 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 Mar 23, 2:40 PM CDT, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 23, 2:40 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 409 AM EDT FRI MAR 23 2012 ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-108-112-114-115-118-127-128-134- GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161-GMZ730-750-755-765-770-775-240815- 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- 409 AM EDT FRI MAR 23 2012 /309 AM CDT FRI MAR 23 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... THERE IS A MODERATE RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE FLORIDA BEACHES TODAY. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INCH CLOSER TO THE WESTERN FORECAST AREA THROUGH TONIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTED. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE WITH DAMAGING GUSTS THE MAIN ISSUE. THEIR FOCUS WILL BE ACROSS SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND ADJACENT SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... A COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT OR EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AND GUSTY WINDS WILL PRECEDE THE FRONT ON SATURDAY. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER WITH THIS SYSTEM IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...BUT SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE INTO SATURDAY EVENING WITH THE FOCUS ACROSS SOUTHERN GEORGIA AND THE INLAND WESTERN BIG BEND. A DRIER AIR MASS ALONG WITH COOLER TEMPERATURES WILL FILTER INTO THE REGION SUNDAY INTO THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK. .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. BLOCK
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 23, 2:11 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
311 PM EDT FRI MAR 23 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0149 PM TORNADO 14 SW DOTHAN 31.08N 85.56W
03/23/2012 GENEVA AL LAW ENFORCEMENT
911 CALL CENTER HAD REPORTS OF HOUSES WITH MINOR DAMAGE
AND ROOFS DAMAGED AT/NEAR 1984 N COUNTY RD 49. TREES DOWN
NEAR INTERSECTION OF COUNTY RD 73 AND SCOTT RD.
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MOORELocal storm report, Mar 23, 2:31 PM CDT, 34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 11:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton | 26 min |
| Mar 23, 2:28 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 62 min | |
| Mar 23, 3:09 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 66 min | |
| Mar 23, 3:32 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 43 min | |
| Mar 23, 4:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Bay, Washington | 44 min |
| Mar 22, 8:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Quitman | 29 min |
| Mar 23, 12:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early | 18 min |
| Mar 23, 2:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Early | 33 min |
| Mar 23, 2:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Seminole | 50 min |
| Mar 23, 3:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Mitchell | 52 min |
| Mar 23, 4:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Worth | 52 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.