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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 19, 2015Lowndes County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at May 19, 2015, 10:20 PM EDT for Lowndes County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 2015, 10:20 PM EDT (02:20 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2015, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Lowndes County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 99 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2218 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1237 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 19, 10:04 PM EDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 10:04 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 19, 6:27 PM EDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
627 PM EDT TUE MAY 19 2015

FLZ027-192300-
INLAND WAKULLA FL-
627 PM EDT TUE MAY 19 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN WAKULLA COUNTY UNTIL
700 PM EDT...

AT 627 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF CRAWFORDVILLE...MOVING EAST AT
10 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN
WAKULLA COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3017 8460 3024 8465 3030 8454 3019 8446
TIME...MOT...LOC 2227Z 249DEG 8KT 3023 8458

08-LAMERS

Local storm report, May 19, 7:17 PM EDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
717 PM EDT TUE MAY 19 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0709 PM     TSTM WND GST     5 SW TALLAHASSEE COML A 30.39N 84.35W
05/19/2015  M60 MPH          LEON               FL   ASOS

            KTLH RECORDED PEAK GUST OF 60 MPH.

&&

MOORE

Special weather statement, May 19, 7:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
743 PM EDT TUE MAY 19 2015

FLZ017-200030-
LEON FL-
743 PM EDT TUE MAY 19 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EAST CENTRAL LEON COUNTY UNTIL
830 PM EDT...

AT 743 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR APALACHEE REGIONAL PARK...MOVING EAST AT 10
MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CHAIRES...CAPITOLA...APALACHEE
REGIONAL PARK... BAUM... CHAIRES CROSSROADS AND RALFORD GREENWAY.

LAT...LON 3044 8407 3041 8408 3040 8419 3047 8420
      3052 8405 3048 8404 3046 8404
TIME...MOT...LOC 2343Z 253DEG 10KT 3044 8416

08-LAMERS

Special weather statement, May 19, 7:46 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
646 PM CDT TUE MAY 19 2015

FLZ007-200015-
NORTH WALTON FL-
646 PM CDT TUE MAY 19 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN WALTON COUNTY UNTIL
715 PM CDT...

AT 646 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR FLORALA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LIBERTY...PAXTON...GORDON...FLOWERSVILLE...NEW HARMONY...FOX HILL...
CANEY CREEK AND CLUSTER SPRINGS.

LAT...LON 3099 8639 3099 8631 3096 8614 3080 8622
      3086 8639
TIME...MOT...LOC 2346Z 289DEG 13KT 3092 8632

08-LAMERS

Special weather statement, May 19, 9:47 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 10:20 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 8:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Walton	23 min
May 20, 3:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	23 min
May 20, 3:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	23 min
May 20, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	29 min
May 20, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	37 min
May 20, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Liberty, Wakulla	29 min
May 20, 5:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		50 min
May 20, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Walton	34 min
May 19, 9:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	28 min
May 20, 7:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee, Dale	62 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2015 Every special weather statement 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.