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Areal Flood Advisory 73, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 27, 2021Jefferson County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this areal flood advisory at Jul 27, 2021, 9:25 AM EDT for Jefferson County, Florida. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 2021, 9:25 AM EDT (13:25 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2021, 11:30 AM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Jefferson County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 38 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2021-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1615 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2021-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1615 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
947 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory 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 areal flood advisory went out at Jul 27, 6:11 AM EDT, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 6:11 AM EDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 2:39 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE2 hr
Jul 27, 10:48 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTAEMadison117 min
Jul 27, 2:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEWakulla50 min
Jul 27, 2:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTAECalhoun43 min
Jul 27, 2:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTAELiberty34 min
Jul 27, 5:48 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTAEBaker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, Miller117 min
Jul 27, 6:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEWorth31 min
Jul 27, 6:26 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTAECalhoun, Dougherty, Worth109 min
Jul 27, 6:49 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningTAEDougherty, Lee, Worth116 min
Jul 27, 6:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEColquitt, Decatur, Grady, Mitchell49 min
Jul 27, 7:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEBrooks, Colquitt, Cook, Lowndes56 min
Jul 27, 4:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEHouston28 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.