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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2012, 2:09 PM EDT for Lanier County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 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 7, 2012, 2:09 PM EDT (18:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2012, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
County Lanier County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 1301 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 755 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
976
WWUS82 KTAE 071809
SPSTAE
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
209 PM EDT TUE AUG 7 2012
GAZ160-161-071900-
LOWNDES GA-LANIER GA-
209 PM EDT TUE AUG 7 2012
...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR LANIER AND LOWNDES
COUNTIES...
* UNTIL 300 PM EDT
AT 204 PM EDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETECTED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM NEAR MAYDAY...OR JUST SOUTH OF THE SOUTHERN TIP OF
LANIER COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.
WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3086 8299 3084 8301 3084 8308 3081 8310
3081 8311 3105 8310 3105 8296 3087 8297
TIME...MOT...LOC 1809Z 193DEG 19KT 3081 8302
$$
08-LAMERSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 3:32 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 24 hr |
| Aug 7, 8:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Holmes | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 9:38 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 67 min | |
| Aug 7, 10:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Holmes, Washington | 87 min |
| Aug 7, 11:02 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Washington | 28 min |
| Aug 7, 11:07 AM EDT | River Flood Watch | TAE | Wakulla | 6 days |
| Aug 7, 11:19 AM EDT | River Flood Watch | TAE | Holmes, Washington | 21 days |
| Aug 7, 12:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 12:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Leon | 92 min |
| Aug 7, 2:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Walton | 62 min |
| Aug 7, 2:53 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 67 min | |
| Aug 7, 3:35 PM EDT | Rip Current Statement | TAE | Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Walton | 3 days |
| Aug 7, 5:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Lafayette, Taylor | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 2:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Berrien, Lanier | 49 min |
| Aug 7, 3:12 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Coffee | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 6:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Coffee | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 6:06 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 7:04 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale | 116 min |
| Aug 7, 7:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 117 min |
| Aug 7, 9:33 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 11:00 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | TAE | Geneva | 34 hr |
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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.