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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 10, 2021Coffee County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Jun 10, 2021, 1:46 PM CDT for Coffee County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued: Jun 10, 2021, 1:46 PM CDT (18:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2021, 2:30 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Coffee County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 212 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: 96 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1144 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 10, 12:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 12:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 1:46 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
146 PM CDT Thu Jun 10 2021

ALZ065-101930-
Coffee AL-
146 PM CDT Thu Jun 10 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN COFFEE COUNTY UNTIL 230
PM CDT...

At 144 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Brantley, or 11 miles northwest of Elba, moving northeast at 25 mph.

Pea size hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with
this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Lee, Pine Level, Java, Chestnut Grove, Victoria, Frisco, Lowry Mill,
Wilkinstown, Zoar, Newby, Wise Mill, Roeton, Clowers Crossroads,
Arcus, Bluff Spring and Jack.

LAT...LON 3153 8619 3153 8616 3154 8614 3162 8615
      3162 8579 3155 8579 3141 8620
TIME...MOT...LOC 1844Z 245DEG 23KT 3150 8625

IG3

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 3:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale, Henry	40 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.