Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2013, 1:13 PM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 2013, 1:13 PM CDT (18:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2013, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:13 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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 1069 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 474 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 24, 9:41 AM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 9:41 AM CDT, 3 hours 32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 7:10 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 95 min | |
| Jul 23, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 52 min |
| Jul 23, 7:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Liberty, Wakulla | 61 min |
| Jul 23, 8:25 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TAE | Walton | 11 days |
| Jul 23, 8:33 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 87 min | |
| Jul 24, 8:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Taylor | 16 min |
| Jul 24, 8:58 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Franklin, Gulf | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 3:26 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 34 min | |
| Jul 24, 5:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 49 min |
| Jul 24, 5:16 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 29 min | |
| Jul 24, 5:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Bay | 28 min |
| Jul 24, 6:42 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Jul 24, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Early | 23 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.