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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 31, 2021Coffee County, Dale County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2021, 4:07 PM CDT for Coffee County, Dale County, Alabama. It was in force for 53 min. 9 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 31, 2021, 4:07 PM CDT (21:07 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2021, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 31, 4:21 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Zoar, AL	TREE DOWN ON COUNTY ROAD 306.
Mar 31, 4:27 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	1 Ene Lee, AL	TREE DOWN ON HIGHWAY 87.
Mar 31, 4:27 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	1 Ene Wise Mill, AL	TREES DOWN ALONG HIGHWAY 125.
Mar 31, 4:29 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	1 Ene Elba, AL	MULTIPLE TREES DOWN NEAR HIGHWAY 87 AT HIGHWAY 125.
Mar 31, 4:29 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Elba, AL	MULTIPLE TREES DOWN ALONG FARRIS AVE IN ELBA.
Mar 31, 4:32 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 W Mixons Crossroads, AL	TREE BLOCKING BOTH LANES OF TRAFFIC ON CR 237 OFF OF CR 233.
Mar 31, 4:37 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 W Mixons Crossroads, AL	TREE DOWN ALONG COUNTY ROAD 233 NEAR COUNTY ROAD 230.
Mar 31, 5:00 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Newton, AL	TREE DOWN IN N EDWARDS ST/E KINGS ST & NEWTON.
Mar 31, 5:03 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 44	Lowe Army Heliport, AL	AWOS STATION KLOR FORT RUCKER.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 31, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 455 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 527 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 273 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 3.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

385 
WUUS52 KTAE 312107
SVRTAE
ALC031-045-312200-
/O.NEW.KTAE.SV.W.0039.210331T2107Z-210331T2200Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
407 PM CDT Wed Mar 31 2021

The National Weather Service in Tallahassee has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northwestern Dale County in southeastern Alabama...
  Coffee County in southeastern Alabama...

* Until 500 PM CDT.

* At 406 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
  extending from near Ansley to near Brantley to near Red Level,
  moving east at 60 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Daleville, Elba, Enterprise, Fort Rucker, Ozark, Level Plains,
  Newton, New Brockton, Ariton, Pinckard, Lee, Mixons Crossroads,
  Hunt Field, Waterford, Curtis, Carl Folsom A/p, Hooper Stage Field,
  Gerald, Camp Humming Hills and Clintonville.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3153 8619 3153 8616 3154 8614 3162 8615
      3162 8555 3131 8555 3131 8620
TIME...MOT...LOC 2106Z 261DEG 51KT 3191 8618 3162 8631 3134 8668 

HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

72-BUNKER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 31, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva	38 min
Mar 31, 4:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	17 min
Mar 31, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Henry, Houston	49 min
Mar 31, 5:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TAE	Dale, Henry	9 min
Mar 31, 5:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva, Houston	50 min
Mar 31, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Henry, Houston	45 min
Mar 31, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Geneva	66 min
Mar 31, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Houston	51 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.