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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 2, 2012Lafayette County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Jul 2, 2012, 6:30 PM EDT for Lafayette County, Florida. It was in force for 45 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 2, 2012, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2012, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Lafayette County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 879 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -184 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1104 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: -44 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.

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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 Jul 2, 3:18 PM EDT, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 3:18 PM EDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 1:25 PM EDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 2, 1:51 PM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 2, 6:30 PM EDT, 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
Jul 1, 11:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	37 min
Jul 1, 11:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon	52 min
Jul 2, 12:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	49 min
Jul 2, 12:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Jackson	62 min
Jul 2, 12:46 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	44 min
Jul 2, 1:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	59 min
Jul 2, 1:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Liberty	33 min
Jul 2, 1:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Jackson	37 min
Jul 2, 2:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Liberty and 1 more	44 min
Jul 2, 2:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	48 min
Jul 2, 2:59 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		61 min
Jul 2, 3:11 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	64 min
Jul 1, 9:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin, Tift, Turner, Worth	54 min
Jul 1, 9:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Cook, Dougherty, Irwin, Lanier, Lee and 4 more	54 min
Jul 1, 10:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Dougherty, Lanier and 4 more	64 min
Jul 1, 10:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Mitchell, Randolph, Terrell	46 min
Jul 1, 11:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Brooks, Decatur, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas	67 min
Jul 1, 11:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Decatur, Early, Grady, Miller, Mitchell and 1 more	61 min
Jul 2, 12:05 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Quitman, Randolph	115 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Florida, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.