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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 156, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 21, 2015Franklin County, Liberty County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2015, 3:09 PM EDT for Franklin County, Liberty County, Florida. It was in force for 36 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 21, 2015, 3:09 PM EDT (19:09 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 2015, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Franklin County, FL, Liberty County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 67 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 2015-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1467 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 2015-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
1467 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
915 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 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 21, 9:51 AM EDT, 5 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 9:51 AM EDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 3:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBay, Calhoun, Gulf41 min
Jun 21, 3:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBay, Gulf35 min
Jun 21, 5:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEWorth24 min
Jun 21, 6:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEHouston42 min
Jun 21, 7:17 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTAEGeneva118 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2015Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015

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.