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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2012, 3:07 PM CDT for Walton County, Florida. 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
- Aug 3, 2012, 3:07 PM CDT (20:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2012, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
County Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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 186 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
- 2919 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
895 WWUS82 KTAE 032007 SPSTAE SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 407 PM EDT FRI AUG 3 2012 FLZ007-032030- NORTH WALTON FL- 307 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012 ...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR WALTON COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA... * UNTIL 330 PM CDT AT 303 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF DE FUNIAK SPRINGS...OR NEAR PINEY GROVE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT (8 5 0) 9 4 2 8 8 3 3. OR...CONTACT LAW ENFORCEMENT. LAT...LON 3092 8621 3092 8603 3071 8616 3074 8624 TIME...MOT...LOC 2007Z 204DEG 3KT 3080 8616 $$ 38-GODSEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 12:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 57 min |
| Aug 3, 12:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Leon | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 2:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Madison | 48 min |
Nearby
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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.