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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 6, 2016Henry County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Jul 6, 2016, 12:49 PM CDT for Henry County, Alabama. It was in force for 41 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: Jul 6, 2016, 12:49 PM CDT (17:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2016, 1:30 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Henry County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 144 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.

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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: 1437 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 963 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 Jul 6, 12:38 PM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 12:38 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 6, 11:51 AM CDT, 58 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1151 AM CDT WED JUL 6 2016

ALZ066-067-061730-
DALE AL-HENRY AL-
1151 AM CDT WED JUL 6 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN HENRY AND DALE COUNTIES
UNTIL 1230 PM CDT...

AT 1150 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES
NORTH OF OZARK TO NEAR DALEVILLE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DALEVILLE...ABBEVILLE...FORT RUCKER...HEADLAND...OZARK...ENTERPRISE...
MIDLAND CITY...LEVEL PLAINS...NEWTON...ARITON...PINCKARD...NEWVILLE...
NAPIER FIELD...CAPPS...SKIPPERVILLE...PHILLIPS CROSSROADS...WATERFORD...
HOOPER STAGE FIELD...LOWE ARMY HELIPORT AND ARGUTA.

LAT...LON 3170 8524 3133 8527 3128 8578 3157 8576
      3162 8564 3162 8542 3171 8542
TIME...MOT...LOC 1650Z 244DEG 23KT 3152 8562 3133 8566

25-CAMP

Local storm report, Jul 6, 12:34 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
134 PM EDT WED JUL 06 2016

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

0113 PM     TSTM WND DMG     4 E OZARK               31.45N 85.59W
07/06/2016                   DALE               AL   911 CALL CENTER

            TREE DOWN BLOCKING STUART TARTER ROAD NEAR VIVIAN ADAMS
            SCHOOL

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Special weather statement, Jul 6, 12:49 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1249 PM CDT WED JUL 6 2016

ALZ067-061830-
HENRY AL-
1249 PM CDT WED JUL 6 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN HENRY COUNTY UNTIL 130
PM CDT...

AT 1249 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR HEADLAND...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

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

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ABBEVILLE...HEADLAND...NEWVILLE...HALEBURG...SHORTERVILLE...CAPPS...
TUMBLETON...WILLIS CROSSROADS...DANCEY...BARNES...BLACKWOOD...BALKUM...
HAYES...MILLER AND HARDWICKBURG.

LAT...LON 3157 8506 3154 8504 3152 8505 3147 8507
      3143 8507 3143 8508 3139 8508 3136 8509
      3138 8541 3151 8540 3161 8506
TIME...MOT...LOC 1749Z 261DEG 18KT 3145 8534

25-CAMP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 12:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes	46 min
Jul 6, 4:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	45 min
Jul 6, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lee, Worth	38 min
Jul 6, 3:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dougherty	47 min
Jul 6, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Tift, Turner, Worth	33 min
Jul 6, 4:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lanier	41 min
Jul 6, 11:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	39 min
Jul 6, 12:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dale, Henry	40 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.