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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 2, 2017Coffee County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Jan 2, 2017, 2:15 PM CST for Coffee County, Alabama. It was in force for 45 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 2, 2017, 2:15 PM CST (20:15 UTC)
Expired: Jan 2, 2017, 3:00 PM CST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Coffee County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 587 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 166 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 Jan 2, 11:49 AM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 2, 11:49 AM CST, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 2, 2:12 PM CST, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
312 PM EST MON JAN 02 2017

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

0211 PM     FLOOD            2 SE DORCAS             30.78N 86.38W
01/02/2017                   WALTON             FL   EMERGENCY MNGR

            *** 1 FATAL *** DROWNING RELATED TO FLOODING ALONG THE
            SHOAL RIVER

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Special weather statement, Jan 2, 2:15 PM CST, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
215 PM CST MON JAN 2 2017

ALZ065-022100-
Coffee AL-
215 PM CST MON JAN 2 2017

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN COFFEE COUNTY UNTIL 300
PM CST...

At 215 PM CST, National Weather Service doppler radar indicated a a
strong thunderstorm near Opp, moving northeast at 45 mph.

Winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Elba, Lee, Kinston, Chestnut Grove, Bluff Spring, Clowers Crossroads,
Zoar, Carl Folsom A/p, Estothel, Danleys Crossroads, Arcus, Wise
Mill, Ino, Camp Humming Hills, Victoria, Jack, Rhoades, Basin, Perry
Store and Lowry Mill.

LAT...LON 3153 8619 3154 8614 3162 8615 3162 8582
      3120 8613 3123 8620
TIME...MOT...LOC 2015Z 222DEG 42KT 3135 8620

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 1, 10:34 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Holmes, Walton	3 hr
Jan 2, 12:40 AM CST	Flash Flood Watch	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington	25 hr
Jan 2, 2:55 AM CST	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Walton	49 hr
Jan 2, 1:45 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		45 min
Jan 2, 2:25 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		35 min
Jan 2, 4:03 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		57 min
Jan 2, 4:43 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	6 hr
Jan 1, 10:33 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Clay, Early	117 min
Jan 2, 4:29 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Quitman	31 min
Jan 2, 4:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Randolph	25 min
Jan 1, 6:23 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Coffee	112 min
Jan 1, 7:17 PM CST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Geneva	5 days
Jan 1, 9:29 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Coffee	2 hr
Jan 1, 10:09 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Houston	2 hr
Jan 1, 11:26 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Houston	2 hr
Jan 2, 1:00 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dale, Henry	2 hr

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.