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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 1, 2016Calhoun County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2016, 12:56 PM EDT for Calhoun County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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: Aug 1, 2016, 12:56 PM EDT (16:56 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2016, 1:45 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Calhoun County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:00 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 1690 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 793 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 4 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 Aug 1, 9:55 AM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 9:55 AM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 1, 10:29 AM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
929 AM CDT MON AUG 1 2016

FLZ011-011515-
JACKSON FL-
929 AM CDT MON AUG 1 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR JACKSON COUNTY UNTIL 1015 AM
CDT...

AT 929 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER MARIANNA...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

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

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MARIANNA...MALONE...COTTONDALE...GREENWOOD...CAMPBELLTON...BASCOM...
CYPRESS...HORNSVILLE...SIMSVILLE...SINK CREEK...ALLIANCE...
KYNESVILLE...JACOBS...MARIANNA MUNICIPAL A/P...TWO EGG...
COTTONDALE AIRPORT...UNION CITY...BLUE SPRING...
LOVEDALE AND ELLAVILLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3100 8500 3097 8500 3097 8499 3095 8498
      3061 8505 3061 8535 3097 8543
TIME...MOT...LOC 1429Z 188DEG 11KT 3074 8524

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Special weather statement, Aug 1, 12:56 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1256 PM EDT MON AUG 1 2016

GAZ121-123-125-142-144-011745-
BAKER GA-CLAY GA-CALHOUN GA-EARLY GA-DOUGHERTY GA-
1256 PM EDT MON AUG 1 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN DOUGHERTY...NORTHEASTERN
EARLY...CALHOUN...NORTHWESTERN BAKER AND SOUTHEASTERN CLAY COUNTIES
UNTIL 145 PM EDT...

AT 1254 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER ARLINGTON...OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
MORGAN... MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.

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

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MORGAN...EDISON...ARLINGTON...LEARY...WALKER...DOUGLASVILLE...
BLUFFTON...PATMOS...CORDRAYS MILL...ROWENA...PARKSVILLE...TURMAN...
MILFORD...COMMISSARY HILL...DUCKER...HOLT...BERMUDA...IVEYS MILL...
ELMODEL WMA AND DICKEY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3134 8429 3135 8486 3157 8487 3161 8431
TIME...MOT...LOC 1654Z 264DEG 6KT 3146 8469

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 1, 8:35 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		25 min
Aug 1, 9:58 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		47 min
Aug 1, 10:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	46 min
Aug 1, 1:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	34 min
Aug 1, 1:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	52 min
Aug 1, 1:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dougherty	44 min
Aug 1, 2:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Cook, Lowndes	50 min
Aug 1, 1:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva	41 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.