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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 21, 2016Walton County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Jan 21, 2016, 7:27 PM CST for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 48 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: Jan 21, 2016, 7:27 PM CST (01:27 UTC)
Expired: Jan 21, 2016, 8:15 PM CST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Walton County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:30 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1670 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 366 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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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 Jan 21, 3:16 PM CST, 4 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 21, 3:16 PM CST, 4 hours 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 21, 7:27 PM CST, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
727 PM CST THU JAN 21 2016

FLZ007-008-108-220215-
SOUTH WALTON FL-NORTH WALTON FL-CENTRAL WALTON FL-
727 PM CST THU JAN 21 2016

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...

AT 727 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE...OR 10 MILES NORTHEAST
OF NICEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DE FUNIAK SPRINGS...EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE...ROCK HILL...PLEASANT
RIDGE...DE FUNIAK SPRING AIRPORT...ALPINE HEIGHTS AND NEW HOME.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM CST FOR CENTRAL
FLORIDA.

LAT...LON 3068 8639 3081 8615 3059 8606 3050 8639
TIME...MOT...LOC 0127Z 243DEG 22KT 3061 8634

52-MCDERMOTT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 21, 7:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	24 min
Jan 22, 12:39 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Jan 22, 12:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Holmes, Walton, Washington	93 min
Jan 22, 1:45 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	30 min
Jan 22, 1:48 AM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TAE	Holmes, Walton	27 min
Jan 22, 2:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Walton, Washington	59 min
Jan 22, 2:43 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay	47 min
Jan 22, 2:53 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Jan 22, 3:06 AM CST	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Walton	21 hr
Jan 22, 3:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Washington	48 min
Jan 22, 3:14 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Bay	91 min
Jan 22, 3:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Liberty	64 min
Jan 22, 3:41 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Calhoun	49 min
Jan 22, 3:53 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay, Gulf	52 min
Jan 22, 4:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Leon and 2 more	73 min
Jan 22, 4:54 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Jan 22, 5:12 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Franklin	33 min
Jan 22, 5:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Leon	21 min
Jan 22, 6:23 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		52 min
Jan 22, 12:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva	70 min
Jan 22, 1:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	80 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.