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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

April 24, 2021Calhoun County, Clay County, Randolph County, Georgia; Henry County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Apr 24, 2021, 6:12 PM EDT for Calhoun County, Clay County, Randolph County, Georgia; Henry County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 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: Apr 24, 2021, 6:12 PM EDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2021, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Henry County, AL, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Randolph County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 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

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

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 Apr 24, 2:47 PM EDT, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 24, 2:47 PM EDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 24, 5:30 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 24, 5:31 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 24, 5:43 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 24, 5:44 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 24, 5:45 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 24, 6:12 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 24, 1:45 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington	22 hr
Apr 24, 2:00 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	18 hr
Apr 24, 7:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	59 min
Apr 24, 9:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	46 min
Apr 24, 9:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	49 min
Apr 24, 10:01 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Walton	119 min
Apr 24, 10:39 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Walton	3 hr
Apr 24, 10:48 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	42 min
Apr 24, 10:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson, Washington	53 min
Apr 24, 10:57 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jackson, Washington	14 min
Apr 24, 11:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson	40 min
Apr 24, 11:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	51 min
Apr 24, 11:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden	48 min
Apr 24, 12:09 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Bay, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington	3 hr
Apr 24, 12:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	50 min
Apr 24, 12:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon	30 min
Apr 24, 12:41 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	TAE	Walton	41 hr
Apr 24, 12:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	64 min
Apr 24, 12:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	30 min
Apr 24, 12:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon, Madison	52 min
Apr 24, 1:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	27 min
Apr 24, 1:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Jackson, Washington	3 hr
Apr 24, 1:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington	3 hr
Apr 24, 1:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	41 min
Apr 24, 1:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon, Madison	51 min
Apr 24, 2:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	36 min
Apr 24, 2:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Madison	19 min
Apr 24, 8:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Early, Miller and 3 more	95 min
Apr 24, 8:48 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Early, Miller	27 min
Apr 24, 8:52 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Early	53 min
Apr 24, 9:10 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Early, Miller	35 min
Apr 24, 9:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Colquitt, Dougherty, Lee, Mitchell, Terrell and 2 more	62 min
Apr 24, 9:33 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Dougherty, Miller, Mitchell	27 min
Apr 24, 10:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Lanier and 3 more	65 min
Apr 24, 11:58 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Baker, Colquitt, Decatur, Early, Grady, Miller and 3 more	4 hr
Apr 24, 1:49 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Decatur, Seminole	3 hr
Apr 24, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lowndes	37 min
Apr 24, 3:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Early	19 min
Apr 24, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, Randolph	56 min
Apr 24, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Early, Miller, Mitchell	41 min
Apr 24, 4:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Tift	111 min
Apr 24, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Colquitt, Dougherty, Lee, Miller, Mitchell and 3 more	47 min
Apr 24, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Tift and 2 more	44 min
Apr 24, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth	31 min
Apr 24, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Tift, Worth	80 min
Apr 24, 6:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, Terrell	38 min
Apr 24, 6:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Tift	3 hr
Apr 24, 7:02 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Dougherty, Lee, Terrell	12 min
Apr 24, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, Randolph, Terrell	40 min
Apr 24, 7:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Dougherty, Lee, Terrell, Worth	52 min
Apr 24, 7:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Berrien, Irwin, Tift	19 min
Apr 24, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Quitman, Randolph	43 min
Apr 24, 7:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Berrien, Irwin, Tift	33 min
Apr 24, 8:12 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	93 min
Apr 24, 8:25 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Dale, Henry	31 min
Apr 24, 1:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee, Dale	67 min
Apr 24, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Houston	60 min
Apr 24, 2:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva	40 min
Apr 24, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	63 min
Apr 24, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	44 min
Apr 24, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Henry	51 min
Apr 24, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee	41 min
Apr 24, 6:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dale, Henry	37 min
Apr 24, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee	31 min
Apr 24, 7:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	66 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.