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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 20, 2016Coffee County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Jul 20, 2016, 9:48 PM CDT for Coffee County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 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 20, 2016, 9:48 PM CDT (02:48 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 2016, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Coffee County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:48 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 1967 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1370 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -7 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 20, 8:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 8:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 20, 7:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
822 PM EDT WED JUL 20 2016

GAZ160-210045-
LOWNDES GA-
822 PM EDT WED JUL 20 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL LOWNDES COUNTY UNTIL 845
PM EDT...

AT 822 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF MAYDAY...OR 9 MILES EAST OF
VALDOSTA...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

WINDS NEAR 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LAKE PARK...VALDOSTA...VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY...I-75 AT EXIT 16...
REMERTON...DASHER...I-75 AT EXIT 11...I-75 AT EXIT 5...
VALDOSTA REGIONAL AIRPORT AND TWIN LAKES.

LAT...LON 3085 8309 3083 8309 3083 8310 3080 8310
      3080 8313 3077 8314 3076 8313 3069 8314
      3063 8320 3063 8325 3084 8336 3085 8335
      3088 8337 3095 8312 3085 8305
TIME...MOT...LOC 0022Z 058DEG 7KT 3084 8314

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Special weather statement, Jul 20, 7:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
858 PM EDT WED JUL 20 2016

FLZ019-GAZ159-160-210130-
MADISON FL-LOWNDES GA-BROOKS GA-
858 PM EDT WED JUL 20 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL MADISON...
SOUTHEASTERN BROOKS AND SOUTHWESTERN LOWNDES COUNTIES UNTIL 930 PM
EDT...

AT 857 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR I-75 AT EXIT 16...OR 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF
LAKE PARK...MOVING WEST AT 35 MPH.

WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
QUITMAN...LAKE PARK...VALDOSTA...I-75 AT EXIT 16...BROOKS CO A/P...I-
75 AT
EXIT 5...PINETTA...BLUE SPRINGS...HAMBURG...NANKIN...I-75 AT EXIT
11...
EMPRESS...VALDOSTA REGIONAL AIRPORT...CHERRY LAKE...KINDERLOU AND
CLYATTVILLE.

LAT...LON 3063 8324 3063 8328 3062 8327 3053 8354
      3081 8361 3084 8326 3064 8320
TIME...MOT...LOC 0057Z 076DEG 28KT 3074 8333

42-DVD

Local storm report, Jul 20, 8:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 20, 8:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 20, 9:04 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 20, 9:48 PM CDT, 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
Jul 20, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Madison	31 min
Jul 21, 9:43 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		62 min
Jul 21, 1:45 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		45 min
Jul 21, 2:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Taylor	42 min
Jul 21, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Wakulla	33 min
Jul 21, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Liberty, Wakulla	45 min
Jul 21, 4:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	38 min
Jul 21, 4:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	41 min
Jul 21, 4:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	45 min
Jul 21, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	17 min
Jul 21, 5:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	49 min
Jul 21, 5:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	44 min
Jul 21, 6:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Jackson	2 hr
Jul 21, 6:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Jackson, Washington	3 hr
Jul 21, 6:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	36 min
Jul 20, 7:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	23 min
Jul 20, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lowndes	27 min
Jul 20, 7:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	32 min
Jul 21, 12:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt	47 min
Jul 21, 12:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Thomas	52 min
Jul 21, 12:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Thomas	47 min
Jul 21, 1:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Worth	40 min
Jul 21, 1:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Thomas	31 min
Jul 21, 2:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Turner	23 min
Jul 21, 2:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Turner	24 min
Jul 21, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lee	17 min
Jul 21, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Dougherty, Mitchell	53 min
Jul 21, 3:04 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Lee, Mitchell, Terrell and 1 more	116 min
Jul 21, 3:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Early	48 min
Jul 21, 4:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Early, Miller, Quitman, Randolph and 1 more	2 hr
Jul 21, 4:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay, Early	46 min
Jul 20, 9:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	41 min
Jul 21, 3:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	41 min
Jul 21, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee	27 min
Jul 21, 6:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Houston	26 min
Jul 21, 6:12 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dale, Henry, Houston	2 hr

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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.