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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2019, 1:33 PM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 42 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 3, 2019, 1:33 PM CDT (18:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2019, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
County Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 1122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 3, 12:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 12:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 3, 1:33 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 133 PM CDT Sat Aug 3 2019 FLZ007-008-108-031915- Central Walton FL-South Walton FL-North Walton FL- 133 PM CDT Sat Aug 3 2019 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL WALTON COUNTY UNTIL 215 PM CDT... At 132 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over Eglin Air Force Base, or 11 miles northeast of Niceville, moving east at 15 mph. Winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... De Funiak Springs, Eglin Air Force Base, Freeport, Eucheeanna, Portland, Pleasant Ridge, New Home, De Funiak Spring Airport, Argyle and Rock Hill. LAT...LON 3066 8639 3077 8605 3051 8599 3050 8639 TIME...MOT...LOC 1832Z 257DEG 12KT 3059 8630 42-DVD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 1:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Holmes | 28 min |
| Aug 3, 4:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun, Jackson | 23 min |
| Aug 3, 4:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jackson | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 4:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Seminole | 29 min |
| Aug 3, 1:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Coffee, Dale | 33 min |
| Aug 3, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale | 29 min |
| Aug 3, 3:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Houston | 31 min |
| Aug 3, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale, Geneva, Houston | 19 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Florida, 2019Every special weather statement in 2019
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.