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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 10, 2012Liberty County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 10, 2012, 7:29 AM EDT for Liberty County, Florida. It was in force for 46 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 10, 2012, 7:29 AM EDT (11:29 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2012, 8:15 AM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Liberty County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Aug 10, 3:00 AM EDT, 4 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 3:00 AM EDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 10, 4:01 AM EDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 10, 7:29 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
729 AM EDT FRI AUG 10 2012

FLZ014-015-026-114-101215-
INLAND GULF FL-COASTAL GULF FL-INLAND FRANKLIN FL-LIBERTY FL-
729 AM EDT FRI AUG 10 2012

...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR FRANKLIN...GULF
AND LIBERTY COUNTIES...

* UNTIL 815 AM EDT /715 AM CDT/

AT 624 AM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETECTED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF MEXICO BEACH...OR NEAR
WEWAHITCHKA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH MAY
REDUCE VISIBILITY AND CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.

LAT...LON 2997 8536 3017 8535 3020 8523 3020 8512
      3022 8511 3021 8510 3023 8508 3024 8508
      3025 8508 3034 8478 2989 8491
TIME...MOT...LOC 1129Z 258DEG 21KT 3010 8515

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 10, 7:03 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		57 min
Aug 10, 8:20 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	40 min
Aug 10, 8:26 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		64 min
Aug 10, 8:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	49 min
Aug 10, 9:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	54 min
Aug 10, 10:43 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		47 min
Aug 10, 11:25 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		84 min
Aug 10, 11:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	63 min
Aug 10, 12:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes, Jackson	47 min
Aug 10, 1:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	3 hr
Aug 10, 1:56 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		49 min
Aug 10, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Walton	61 min
Aug 10, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Walton, Washington	23 min
Aug 10, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		60 min
Aug 10, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	34 min
Aug 10, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		61 min
Aug 10, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	46 min
Aug 10, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	60 min
Aug 10, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay	42 min
Aug 10, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Madison, Taylor	24 min
Aug 10, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Gulf	12 min
Aug 10, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		75 min
Aug 10, 9:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lowndes	67 min
Aug 10, 10:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lanier, Lowndes	30 min
Aug 10, 12:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Seminole	62 min
Aug 10, 10:51 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Coffee	3 hr
Aug 10, 11:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva	42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.