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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at May 8, 2012, 2:22 PM CDT for Henry County, Alabama. It was in force for 23 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
- May 8, 2012, 2:22 PM CDT (19:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2012, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
County Henry County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 559 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
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 May 8, 9:39 AM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 9:39 AM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 527 AM EDT TUE MAY 8 2012 ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-108-112-114-115-118-127-128-134- GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161-GMZ730-750-755-765-770-775-090930- 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- 527 AM EDT TUE MAY 8 2012 /427 AM CDT TUE MAY 8 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... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE SEA BREEZE AGAIN TODAY...AND SHOULD BE MOST NUMEROUS IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE FROM TALLAHASSEE WESTWARD...AND IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BE STRONG AND PRODUCE SOME GUSTY WINDS. THE STORMS WILL BE MOVING VERY SLOWLY SO LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL AND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG OR SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER REPORTS OF WIND GUSTS OR DAMAGE...HAIL...AND RAINFALL TOTALS WOULD BE APPRECIATED OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. 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. 08-LAMERS
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 8, 9:53 AM CDT, 4 hours 29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 4:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 54 min |
| May 8, 5:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gadsden | 63 min |
| May 8, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon | 23 min |
| May 8, 2:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Clay | 34 min |
| May 8, 4:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Baker | 52 min |
| May 8, 2:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Houston | 32 min |
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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.