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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at May 18, 2016, 7:43 PM CDT for Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 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 18, 2016, 7:43 PM CDT (00:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2016, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
County Houston County, AL
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 131 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1496 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 891 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 18, 6:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 18, 6:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 18, 7:43 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 743 PM CDT WED MAY 18 2016 ALZ068-069-FLZ009-011-190130- HOUSTON AL-GENEVA AL-JACKSON FL-HOLMES FL- 743 PM CDT WED MAY 18 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL HOUSTON... SOUTHEASTERN GENEVA...NORTHEASTERN HOLMES AND NORTHWESTERN JACKSON COUNTIES UNTIL 830 PM CDT... AT 742 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR GRACEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... COTTONWOOD...GRACEVILLE...MADRID...CAMPBELLTON...MEMPHIS...BROWNTOWN... SOUTHERN JUNCTION...COBB CROSSROADS...HODGESVILLE...KEYTONS...FADETTE... GARRETTS CROSSROADS...OLYMPIA SPA RESORT...ELLAVILLE...MERRITTS CROSSROADS AND JACOB CITY. LAT...LON 3096 8557 3111 8553 3116 8529 3089 8535 TIME...MOT...LOC 0042Z 278DEG 11KT 3101 8548 15-HARRIGAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison | 25 min |
| May 19, 6:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jefferson | 30 min |
| May 19, 2:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Quitman, Randolph, Terrell | 114 min |
| May 19, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes | 26 min |
| May 19, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Quitman, Randolph | 30 min |
| May 19, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Quitman, Randolph | 16 min |
| May 19, 3:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Quitman | 116 min |
| May 19, 4:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Quitman | 2 hr |
| May 19, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Mitchell | 44 min |
| May 18, 8:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Houston | 42 min |
| May 18, 9:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Dale | 32 min |
| May 18, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale | 28 min |
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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.