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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 20, 20196 counties in Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2019, 7:46 PM EDT for 6 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 20, 2019, 7:46 PM EDT (23:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2019, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Baker County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Early County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Seminole County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 20, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 88 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: 1332 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 829 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 20, 7:23 PM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 7:23 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 20, 6:47 PM EDT, 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 20, 6:53 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 20, 7:12 PM EDT, 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 20, 7:30 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 20, 7:42 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 20, 7:43 PM EDT, 3 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
Jun 20, 3:06 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Walton	45 hr
Jun 20, 10:10 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	TAE		10 hr
Jun 20, 11:38 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	22 min
Jun 20, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Quitman	44 min
Jun 20, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell	25 min
Jun 20, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lee, Randolph, Terrell	35 min
Jun 20, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay	28 min
Jun 20, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	43 min
Jun 20, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lanier, Lowndes	47 min
Jun 20, 5:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee, Turner	45 min
Jun 20, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin, Lee, Tift, Turner, Worth	45 min
Jun 20, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early	26 min
Jun 20, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Tift and 2 more	85 min
Jun 20, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Early, Mitchell	62 min
Jun 20, 7:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Miller, Mitchell	48 min
Jun 20, 7:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes and 2 more	80 min
Jun 20, 4:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Henry	25 min
Jun 20, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	52 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.