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High Surf Advisory 5, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this high surf advisory at Jun 5, 2013, 1:55 PM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 25 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2013, 1:55 PM CDT (18:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2013, 2:36 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 360 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
- 2499 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 459 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high surf advisory 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 high surf advisory went out at Jun 5, 11:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 11:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 3:43 AM CDT, 10 hours 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 443 AM EDT WED JUN 5 2013 ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-108-112-114-115-118-127-128-134- GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161-GMZ730-750-755-765-770-775-061100- 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- 443 AM EDT WED JUN 5 2013 /343 AM CDT WED JUN 5 2013/ 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...TODAY AND TONIGHT... A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WATERS FROM APALACHICOLA TO DESTIN THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING. A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS EXISTS THROUGH AT LEAST THURSDAY MORNING FOR THE PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND BEACHES. THERE IS ALSO A RISK OF LOCALIZED FLOODING TODAY...MAINLY ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA WHERE HEAVY RAIN FELL ON TUESDAY. WIDESPREAD FLOODING IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... THERE IS STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY WITH THE APPROACHING LOW IN THE GULF AND THE FORECAST WILL BE LARGELY DEPENDENT ON ITS EVENTUAL TRACK AND INTENSITY. HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY...MAINLY ACROSS THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA...DEPENDING ON THE TRACK OF THE GULF LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY...ALTHOUGH REPORTS OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOODING ARE APPRECIATED. 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. DVD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 2:30 AM CDT | Rip Current Statement | TAE | Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Walton | 47 hr |
| Jun 5, 2:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 7 more | 31 hr |
| Jun 5, 5:22 PM CDT | Tropical Storm Watch | TAE | Dixie, Lafayette, Madison, Taylor | 11 hr |
| Jun 5, 5:22 PM CDT | Tropical Storm Warning | TAE | Dixie, Franklin, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon, Madison and 2 more | 29 hr |
| Jun 4, 8:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Ben Hill, Berrien, Cook, Irwin, Lee, Terrell and 3 more | 113 min |
| Jun 4, 10:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Colquitt | 28 min |
| Jun 4, 11:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Lee, Randolph, Terrell | 75 min |
| Jun 4, 11:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Brooks | 30 min |
| Jun 5, 2:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Henry | 55 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.