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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at May 22, 2012, 7:33 PM EDT for Lanier County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 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 22, 2012, 7:33 PM EDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2012, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
County Lanier County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1278 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 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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NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at May 22, 6:51 PM EDT, 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 6:51 PM EDT, 42 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 438 AM EDT TUE MAY 22 2012 ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-108-112-114-115-118-127-128-134- GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161-GMZ730-750-755-765-770-775-230845- 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- 438 AM EDT TUE MAY 22 2012 /338 AM CDT TUE MAY 22 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 SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS TODAY. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION TODAY FROM THE NORTHWEST...PROVIDING A FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL...GENERALLY RANGING FROM PENNY TO QUARTER SIZE...AND WIND GUSTS IN THE 45 TO 60 MPH RANGE. THIS THREAT WILL DIMINISH DURING THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER APPEARS UNLIKELY AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. PLEASE MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS...AND BE CONSIDERED ACTIVATED WHEN AND IF A HAZARDOUS WEATHER WATCH OR WARNING IS ISSUED. 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. FOURNIER
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Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 21, 8:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun | 55 min |
| May 22, 9:43 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 47 min | |
| May 22, 10:24 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 36 min | |
| May 22, 10:55 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 30 min | |
| May 22, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Liberty | 24 min |
| May 22, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun | 22 min |
| May 22, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Liberty | 38 min |
| May 22, 4:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Washington | 30 min |
| May 22, 4:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gadsden | 28 min |
| May 22, 4:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Liberty | 19 min |
| May 22, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Liberty | 29 min |
| May 22, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon, Liberty | 27 min |
| May 22, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 38 min |
| May 22, 5:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun | 51 min |
| May 22, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Wakulla | 37 min |
| May 22, 5:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jackson | 47 min |
| May 22, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Wakulla | 33 min |
| May 22, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Jackson, Liberty | 11 min |
| May 22, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun | 52 min |
| May 22, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Randolph, Terrell | 47 min |
| May 22, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Mitchell | 45 min |
| May 22, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Decatur | 19 min |
| May 22, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur | 27 min |
| May 22, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth | 37 min |
| May 22, 5:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Dougherty | 33 min |
| May 22, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Mitchell | 35 min |
| May 22, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Mitchell | 26 min |
| May 22, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady, Mitchell | 29 min |
| May 22, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Tift, Worth | 47 min |
| May 22, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Mitchell, Worth | 38 min |
| May 22, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Mitchell | 24 min |
| May 22, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier, Tift | 53 min |
| May 22, 6:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Lowndes | 33 min |
| May 22, 7:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Baker | 25 min |
| May 22, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Lanier | 46 min |
| May 22, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Lanier, Lowndes | 21 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.