Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2021, 10:20 AM CDT for Calhoun County, Gadsden County, Jackson County, Florida; Decatur County, Seminole County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 24, 2021, 10:20 AM CDT (15:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2021, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Calhoun County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Decatur County, GA, Seminole County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 10:42 AM CDT | HAIL 0.5 | 2 S Sneads, FL | REPORT FROM MPING: HALF-INCH (0.50 IN.). |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 5:22 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 447 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 570 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted.
615
WUUS52 KTAE 241520
SVRTAE
FLC013-039-063-GAC087-253-241600-
/O.NEW.KTAE.SV.W.0075.210424T1520Z-210424T1600Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
1120 AM EDT Sat Apr 24 2021
The National Weather Service in Tallahassee has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southeastern Jackson County in the Panhandle of Florida...
Northeastern Calhoun County in the Panhandle of Florida...
Northwestern Gadsden County in Big Bend of Florida...
Southwestern Decatur County in southwestern Georgia...
Southeastern Seminole County in southwestern Georgia...
* Until noon EDT/1100 AM CDT/.
* At 1120 AM EDT/1020 AM CDT/, Doppler radar indicated a severe
thunderstorm capable of producing quarter size hail and damaging
winds in excess of 60 mph. This storm was located 12 miles
southeast of Marianna, and moving east at 45 mph.
* Locations impacted include...
Chattahoochee, Sneads, Grand Ridge, Altha, Brinson, Seminole State
Park, Desser, Reynoldsville, Ocheesee, Mount Pleasant, Hardin
Heights, Rosedale, Recovery, Faceville, Drakes Still, Jinks, Star,
Cypress, Alliance and Fairchild.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Severe thunderstorms produce damaging winds, destructive hail, deadly
lightning and very heavy rain. For your protection, move to an
interior room on the lowest floor of your home or business. Heavy
rains flood roads quickly so do not drive into areas where water
covers the road.
&&
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 300 PM EDT/200 PM CDT/ for
the Panhandle of Florida...and southwestern Georgia.
LAT...LON 3067 8457 3060 8490 3061 8493 3060 8494
3056 8512 3073 8519 3098 8471
TIME...MOT...LOC 1520Z 251DEG 38KT 3068 8507
$$
55-SCHOLLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 12:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TAE | Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 22 hr |
| Apr 24, 1:00 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 18 hr |
| Apr 24, 6:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton | 59 min |
| Apr 24, 8:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton | 46 min |
| Apr 24, 8:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Holmes | 49 min |
| Apr 24, 9:01 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Holmes, Jackson, Walton | 119 min |
| Apr 24, 9:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Holmes, Jackson, Walton | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 9:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jackson | 42 min |
| Apr 24, 9:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson, Washington | 53 min |
| Apr 24, 9:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jackson, Washington | 14 min |
| Apr 24, 10:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton, Washington | 51 min |
| Apr 24, 10:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden | 48 min |
| Apr 24, 11:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Bay, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 11:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 50 min |
| Apr 24, 11:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon | 30 min |
| Apr 24, 11:41 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TAE | Walton | 41 hr |
| Apr 24, 11:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Holmes | 64 min |
| Apr 24, 11:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon | 30 min |
| Apr 24, 11:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon, Madison | 52 min |
| Apr 24, 12:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon | 27 min |
| Apr 24, 12:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Jackson, Washington | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 12:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 12:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison | 41 min |
| Apr 24, 12:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon, Madison | 51 min |
| Apr 24, 1:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison | 36 min |
| Apr 24, 1:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Madison | 19 min |
| Apr 24, 7:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Early, Miller and 3 more | 95 min |
| Apr 24, 7:48 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early, Miller | 27 min |
| Apr 24, 7:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Early | 53 min |
| Apr 24, 8:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Early, Miller | 35 min |
| Apr 24, 8:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Colquitt, Dougherty, Lee, Mitchell, Terrell and 2 more | 62 min |
| Apr 24, 8:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Dougherty, Miller, Mitchell | 27 min |
| Apr 24, 9:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Lanier and 3 more | 65 min |
| Apr 24, 10:58 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Baker, Colquitt, Decatur, Early, Grady, Miller and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 24, 12:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 1:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 37 min |
| Apr 24, 2:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Early | 19 min |
| Apr 24, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, Randolph | 56 min |
| Apr 24, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Early, Miller, Mitchell | 41 min |
| Apr 24, 3:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Tift | 111 min |
| Apr 24, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Colquitt, Dougherty, Lee, Miller, Mitchell and 3 more | 47 min |
| Apr 24, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Tift and 2 more | 44 min |
| Apr 24, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth | 31 min |
| Apr 24, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Tift, Worth | 80 min |
| Apr 24, 5:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Randolph | 63 min |
| Apr 24, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, Terrell | 38 min |
| Apr 24, 5:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Tift | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Dougherty, Lee, Terrell | 12 min |
| Apr 24, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, Randolph, Terrell | 40 min |
| Apr 24, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Dougherty, Lee, Terrell, Worth | 52 min |
| Apr 24, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Berrien, Irwin, Tift | 19 min |
| Apr 24, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Quitman, Randolph | 43 min |
| Apr 24, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Berrien, Irwin, Tift | 33 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.