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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 14, 20184 counties in Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Jul 14, 2018, 3:25 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. 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: Jul 14, 2018, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2018, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Berrien County, GA, Cook County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lowndes County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 1309 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 904 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 14 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 Jul 14, 3:22 PM EDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 3:22 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 14, 11:02 AM EDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1102 AM EDT SAT JUL 14 2018

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

1101 AM     FLASH FLOOD      2 S MOSSY DELL          31.73N 84.11W
07/14/2018                   LEE                GA   911 CALL CENTER

            WATER OVER THE ROAD AT HIGHWAY 32 AND MOSSY
            DELL ROAD.

&&

KGG

Special weather statement, Jul 14, 2:47 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
147 PM CDT SAT JUL 14 2018

ALZ066-067-141915-
Dale AL-Henry AL-
147 PM CDT SAT JUL 14 2018

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EAST CENTRAL DALE AND
SOUTHWESTERN HENRY COUNTIES UNTIL 215 PM CDT...

At 147 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles northwest of Headland, moving southeast at 15 mph.

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

Locations impacted include...
Headland, Kinsey, Newville, Sylvan Grove, Bells Crossroads,
Tumbleton, Echo, Kirkland Crossroads, Blackwood, Capps, Snells
Crossroads, Browns Crossroads, Goldberg Field, Headland Municipal
A/P, Dancey, Bertha and Balkum.

LAT...LON 3146 8516 3131 8529 3131 8541 3139 8556
      3155 8545
TIME...MOT...LOC 1847Z 300DEG 11KT 3144 8543

42-DVD

Special weather statement, Jul 14, 3:25 PM EDT, 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
Jul 14, 2:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Leon	2 hr
Jul 14, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Wakulla	46 min
Jul 14, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	32 min
Jul 14, 4:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	25 min
Jul 14, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	25 min
Jul 14, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		81 min
Jul 14, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Franklin, Gulf	59 min
Jul 14, 5:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	34 min
Jul 14, 6:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Jackson	64 min
Jul 13, 11:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dougherty	36 min
Jul 13, 11:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dougherty, Lee	3 hr
Jul 14, 10:41 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Lee, Worth	3 hr
Jul 14, 1:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Clay, Quitman, Randolph	3 hr
Jul 14, 3:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Brooks, Lowndes	2 hr
Jul 14, 4:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Berrien, Cook, Lanier	58 min
Jul 14, 5:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Turner, Worth	66 min
Jul 14, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Turner	32 min
Jul 14, 10:49 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dale, Henry, Houston	116 min
Jul 14, 2:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Henry	28 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.