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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 30, 2017Washington County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 30, 2017, 10:25 PM CDT for Washington County, Florida. It was in force for 50 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 30, 2017, 10:25 PM CDT (03:25 UTC)
Expired: Aug 30, 2017, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Washington County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:28 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, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 1187 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1012 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.3

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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 30, 8:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 8:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 30, 4:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 30, 7:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 30, 7:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 30, 9:32 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 30, 9:58 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 30, 10:25 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
Aug 30, 7:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	47 min
Aug 30, 8:34 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		41 min
Aug 30, 9:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	28 min
Aug 30, 9:33 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		57 min
Aug 30, 9:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	47 min
Aug 30, 11:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	52 min
Aug 31, 1:55 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		35 min
Aug 31, 2:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	42 min
Aug 31, 7:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	46 min
Aug 31, 9:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	21 min
Aug 31, 9:45 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		30 min
Aug 31, 10:11 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		49 min
Aug 31, 10:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	36 min
Aug 31, 11:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	23 min
Aug 31, 2:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	36 min
Aug 31, 2:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	29 min
Aug 31, 2:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	29 min
Aug 31, 3:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	19 min
Aug 31, 3:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	33 min
Aug 31, 3:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	32 min
Aug 31, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson	27 min
Aug 31, 3:48 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		57 min
Aug 31, 4:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	22 min
Aug 31, 4:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	35 min
Aug 31, 4:42 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Aug 31, 4:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	24 min
Aug 31, 5:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	30 min
Aug 31, 5:35 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		55 min
Aug 31, 5:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	33 min
Aug 31, 5:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	47 min
Aug 31, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	31 min
Aug 31, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		85 min
Aug 31, 6:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	34 min
Aug 31, 6:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	24 min
Aug 31, 10:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay, Early, Randolph	46 min
Aug 31, 11:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Terrell	30 min
Aug 31, 12:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Grady	29 min
Aug 31, 12:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Thomas	28 min
Aug 31, 1:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Berrien, Colquitt, Irwin, Tift, Turner and 1 more	42 min
Aug 31, 2:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Berrien, Cook, Irwin	33 min
Aug 31, 3:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Early	33 min
Aug 31, 5:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Decatur, Grady	47 min
Aug 31, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady	44 min
Aug 31, 6:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Thomas	27 min
Aug 31, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Thomas	36 min
Aug 30, 7:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva	48 min
Aug 31, 3:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva	52 min
Aug 31, 4:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	44 min
Aug 31, 4:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	41 min
Aug 31, 5:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	39 min
Aug 31, 8:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	52 min
Aug 31, 8:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	53 min
Aug 31, 8:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	22 min
Aug 31, 9:37 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dale	53 min
Aug 31, 10:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Houston	35 min
Aug 31, 4:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	23 min
Aug 31, 4:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	32 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.