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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at May 20, 2020, 8:48 AM EDT for Mitchell County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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
- May 20, 2020, 8:48 AM EDT (12:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 2020, 9:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
County Mitchell County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:51 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1349 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 May 20, 6:13 AM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 20, 6:13 AM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 20, 6:26 AM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 9:36 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun | 24 min |
| May 20, 10:02 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun | 43 min |
| May 20, 10:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Liberty | 45 min |
| May 20, 10:28 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Liberty | 2 hr |
| May 20, 11:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun | 46 min |
| May 20, 11:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Liberty | 46 min |
| May 20, 12:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Liberty | 49 min |
| May 20, 1:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Liberty, Wakulla | 61 min |
| May 20, 2:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Wakulla | 49 min |
| May 20, 2:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 60 min | |
| May 20, 4:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Wakulla | 47 min |
| May 20, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 59 min | |
| May 20, 5:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 35 min | |
| May 20, 6:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jefferson | 47 min |
| May 20, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon, Madison | 42 min |
| May 20, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison | 16 min |
| May 20, 6:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth | 64 min |
| May 20, 7:36 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Cook, Tift | 54 min |
| May 20, 7:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Lowndes | 41 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.