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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 2, 2014Taylor County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2014, 8:54 PM EDT for Taylor County, Florida. It was in force for 22 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 2, 2014, 8:54 PM EDT (00:54 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 2014, 9:16 PM EDT
In force
22 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Taylor County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 78 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 00:00Z on 2014-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2158 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 00:00Z on 2014-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 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
2158 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1457 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
46 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 Jul 2, 3:29 PM EDT, 5 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 3:29 PM EDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 10:12 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE93 min
Jul 2, 11:05 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE85 min
Jul 3, 12:12 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE2 hr
Jul 3, 1:19 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE116 min
Jul 3, 1:33 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEFranklin, Wakulla27 min
Jul 3, 1:52 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE2 hr
Jul 3, 1:58 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEFranklin47 min
Jul 3, 2:08 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJefferson23 min
Jul 3, 3:07 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE53 min
Jul 3, 3:53 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE2 hr
Jul 3, 5:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJefferson, Madison, Taylor48 min
Jul 3, 5:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAELeon, Wakulla45 min
Jul 3, 5:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEMadison58 min
Jul 3, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAELeon, Wakulla33 min
Jul 3, 2:30 PM EDTFire Weather WatchTAECoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston16 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2014Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

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.