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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 190, NWS Tallahassee, FL

September 1, 2013Walton County, Florida; Geneva County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 2013, 5:34 PM CDT for Walton County, Florida; Geneva County, Alabama. It was in force for 41 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
Sep 1, 2013, 5:34 PM CDT (22:34 UTC)
Expired
Sep 1, 2013, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Geneva County, AL, Walton County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 171 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2013-09-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1673 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2013-09-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -48 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1673 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
610 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Sep 1, 2:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 2:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
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In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 1, 6:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEHolmes36 min
Sep 1, 3:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEThomas37 min
Sep 1, 3:26 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTAEHenry3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2013Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2013Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013

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.