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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Feb 7, 2018, 2:25 PM EST for Decatur County, Grady County, Georgia. It was in force for 65 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
- Feb 7, 2018, 2:25 PM EST (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 7, 2018, 3:30 PM EST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Decatur County, GA, Grady County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 69 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 718 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
000
WWUS82 KTAE 071925
SPSTAE
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
225 PM EST WED FEB 7 2018
GAZ143-145-155>157-072030-
Miller GA-Decatur GA-Mitchell GA-Seminole GA-Grady GA-
225 PM EST WED FEB 7 2018
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DECATUR...WESTERN GRADY...
SOUTHEASTERN MILLER...SOUTHWESTERN MITCHELL AND SOUTHEASTERN SEMINOLE
COUNTIES UNTIL 330 PM EST...
At 225 PM EST, National Weather Service doppler radar indicated a
strong thunderstorm near West Bainbridge, or near Bainbridge, moving
east at 40 mph.
Winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Bainbridge, Cairo, Whigham, West Bainbridge, Attapulgus, Climax,
Hanover, Ausmac, Reynoldsville, Capel, Recovery, Decatur Co A/P,
Harrells Still, Laingkat, Calvary, Jinks, Princes Still, Peoples
Still, Amsterdam and Nickleville.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
&&
LAT...LON 3110 8454 3108 8454 3108 8451 3110 8450
3108 8412 3069 8430 3071 8483 3083 8482
3110 8463
TIME...MOT...LOC 1925Z 287DEG 36KT 3100 8458
$$
ADLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 7, 12:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes | 39 min |
| Feb 7, 1:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 51 min |
| Feb 7, 1:39 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Walton, Washington | 51 min |
| Feb 7, 2:23 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jackson, Washington | 67 min |
| Feb 7, 2:30 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 45 min | |
| Feb 7, 2:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Jackson, Liberty, Washington | 41 min |
| Feb 7, 12:44 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun, Early | 61 min |
| Feb 7, 1:38 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Miller | 52 min |
| Feb 7, 1:41 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Dougherty, Worth | 49 min |
| Feb 7, 1:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Dougherty, Lee, Mitchell, Worth | 40 min |
| Feb 7, 1:54 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Seminole | 51 min |
| Feb 7, 2:03 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Baker, Mitchell | 42 min |
| Feb 7, 2:48 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Colquitt, Cook, Tift | 57 min |
| Feb 7, 11:21 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee | 24 min |
| Feb 7, 11:56 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry, Houston | 20 min |
| Feb 7, 12:48 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Houston | 57 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.