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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2012, 10:40 AM CDT for Washington County, Florida. It was in force for 50 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 14, 2012, 10:40 AM CDT (15:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2012, 11:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
County Washington County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 1774 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 734 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 14, 9:07 AM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 9:07 AM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 410 AM EDT TUE AUG 14 2012 ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-108-112-114-115-118-127-128-134- GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161-GMZ730-750-755-765-770-775-150100- COFFEE-DALE-HENRY-GENEVA-HOUSTON-INLAND WALTON-CENTRAL WALTON- HOLMES-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-INLAND BAY-CALHOUN-INLAND GULF- INLAND FRANKLIN-GADSDEN-LEON-INLAND JEFFERSON-MADISON-LIBERTY- INLAND WAKULLA-INLAND TAYLOR-LAFAYETTE-INLAND DIXIE-SOUTH WALTON- COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF-COASTAL FRANKLIN-COASTAL JEFFERSON- COASTAL WAKULLA-COASTAL TAYLOR-COASTAL DIXIE-QUITMAN-CLAY- RANDOLPH-TERRELL-DOUGHERTY-LEE-WORTH-TURNER-TIFT-BEN HILL-IRWIN- EARLY-MILLER-BAKER-MITCHELL-COLQUITT-COOK-BERRIEN-SEMINOLE- DECATUR-GRADY-THOMAS-BROOKS-LOWNDES-LANIER- APALACHEE BAY OR COASTAL WATERS FROM KEATON BEACH TO OCHLOCKONEE RIVER FL OUT TO 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM APALACHICOLA TO DESTIN FL OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM OCHLOCKONEE RIVER TO APALACHICOLA FL OUT TO 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM SUWANNEE RIVER TO KEATON BEACH OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM APALACHICOLA TO DESTIN FL FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM SUWANNEE RIVER TO APALACHICOLA FL FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 410 AM EDT TUE AUG 14 2012 /310 AM CDT TUE AUG 14 2012/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...AND THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND PANHANDLE...AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WE WILL SEE AN INCREASE IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE TRI-STATE REGION TODAY. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED ALTHOUGH A FEW STORMS MAY BRIEFLY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE LATER THIS MORNING OR AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. TYPICAL SUMMERTIME WEATHER WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM EACH DAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME MORE NUMEROUS OVER THE WEEKEND AS A COLD FRONT PUSHES INTO THE REGION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WEATHER.GOV...THEN CLICK ON YOUR AREA OF INTEREST ON THE NATIONAL MAP. BARRY
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Special weather statement, Aug 14, 10:40 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 10:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Washington | 49 min |
| Aug 14, 11:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jackson | 51 min |
| Aug 14, 12:24 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 51 min | |
| Aug 14, 12:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gadsden | 49 min |
| Aug 14, 12:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 59 min |
| Aug 14, 1:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Madison | 43 min |
| Aug 14, 1:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jefferson | 42 min |
| Aug 14, 2:06 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 54 min | |
| Aug 13, 8:49 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TAE | Berrien, Lowndes | 15 hr |
| Aug 14, 3:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Henry | 29 min |
| Aug 14, 3:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Henry | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 3:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Henry | 27 min |
| Aug 14, 3:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Coffee | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale | 35 min |
| Aug 14, 4:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Dale | 25 min |
| Aug 14, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 4:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Dale | 37 min |
| Aug 14, 5:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Coffee | 51 min |
| Aug 14, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 38 min |
| Aug 14, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 5:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Geneva | 23 min |
| Aug 14, 6:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Geneva | 58 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.