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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 12, 2014Jefferson County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2014, 6:59 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Florida. It was in force for 31 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
Jun 12, 2014, 6:59 PM EDT (22:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2014, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Jefferson County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 38 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 2014-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1860 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2014-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 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
1860 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
707 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 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 Jun 12, 1:45 PM EDT, 5 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 1:45 PM EDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 3:41 AM EDTRip Current StatementTAEBay, Gulf, Walton20 hr
Jun 12, 8:38 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEGulf37 min
Jun 12, 9:12 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAELiberty, Wakulla48 min
Jun 12, 9:59 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEWakulla31 min
Jun 12, 10:09 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTAELeon66 min
Jun 12, 11:04 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEJefferson56 min
Jun 12, 11:21 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTAELeon24 min
Jun 12, 11:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJefferson, Leon, Madison34 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.