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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 8, 2020Decatur County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2020, 6:44 PM EDT for Decatur County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 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 8, 2020, 6:44 PM EDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2020, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Decatur County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 268 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: 510 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1019 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 8, 8:58 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		92 min
Aug 8, 10:24 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		66 min
Aug 8, 11:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie, Lafayette	56 min
Aug 8, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	24 min
Aug 8, 4:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill	35 min
Aug 8, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin	48 min
Aug 8, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Quitman	48 min
Aug 8, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Grady	36 min
Aug 8, 3:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Henry	36 min
Aug 8, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	20 min
Aug 8, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee, Dale	44 min
Aug 8, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Henry	38 min
Aug 8, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	48 min

Nearby

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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.