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Tropical Storm Warning 1011, NWS Tallahassee, FL

September 9, 201716 counties in Florida; 26 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tropical storm warning at Sep 9, 2017, 4:32 PM CDT for 16 counties in Florida; 26 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 52 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 9, 2017, 4:32 PM CDT (21:32 UTC)
Expired: Sep 11, 2017, 8:03 PM CDT
In force: 52 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

All 47 counties

Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Madison County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Worth County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1216 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tropical storm warning 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 tropical storm warning went out at Sep 9, 4:22 PM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 4:22 PM CDT, 10 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
Sep 8, 10:12 PM CDT	Hurricane Watch	TAE	Dixie, Franklin, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon, Madison and 2 more	18 hr
Sep 9, 4:23 AM CDT	Tropical Storm Watch	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 2 more	12 hr
Sep 9, 10:29 AM CDT	Hurricane Warning	TAE	Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon and 3 more	45 hr
Sep 9, 10:29 AM CDT	Storm Surge Watch	TAE	Dixie, Jefferson, Taylor, Wakulla	12 hr
Sep 9, 2:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	TAE	Dixie, Gadsden, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon, Madison and 2 more	50 hr

Nearby

Tropical Storm Warnings in Georgia, 2017 Tropical Storm Warnings in Florida, 2017 Tropical Storm Warnings in Alabama, 2017 Every tropical storm warning in 2017

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.