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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 11, 2012Geneva County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Jun 11, 2012, 10:34 AM CDT for Geneva County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 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: Jun 11, 2012, 10:34 AM CDT (15:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2012, 11:00 AM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Geneva County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 1839 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 713 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.6

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The text

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

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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 Jun 11, 8:20 AM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 8:20 AM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 3:20 AM CDT, 7 hours 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 11, 6:41 AM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 11, 6:55 AM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 11, 10:34 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 10:37 AM CDT	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Walton	32 hr
Jun 11, 11:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Walton	54 min
Jun 11, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson	33 min
Jun 11, 1:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson	24 min
Jun 11, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Liberty	35 min
Jun 11, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon	48 min
Jun 11, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	52 min
Jun 11, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	27 min
Jun 11, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Madison	36 min
Jun 11, 11:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Early	40 min
Jun 11, 1:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Early, Seminole	27 min
Jun 11, 1:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Lee, Terrell	27 min
Jun 11, 1:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Decatur, Early, Miller, Seminole	50 min
Jun 11, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Lee, Tift, Turner, Worth	41 min
Jun 11, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Decatur, Grady, Miller, Mitchell	40 min
Jun 11, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes	49 min
Jun 11, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lowndes	45 min
Jun 11, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes	49 min
Jun 11, 10:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	35 min
Jun 11, 11:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dale, Henry	47 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.