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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 13, 2021Dixie County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Jun 13, 2021, 12:55 PM EDT for Dixie County, Florida. It was in force for 35 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: Jun 13, 2021, 12:55 PM EDT (16:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2021, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Dixie County, FL

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:56 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 44 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -277 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1448 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 11 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 13, 10:24 AM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 10:24 AM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 12:55 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
1255 PM EDT Sun Jun 13 2021

FLZ034-134-131730-
Coastal Dixie FL-Inland Dixie FL-
1255 PM EDT Sun Jun 13 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EAST CENTRAL DIXIE COUNTY UNTIL
130 PM EDT...

At 1254 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Cross City, moving southeast at 5 to 10 mph.

Half inch hail and winds up to 45 mph are possible with this storm.
Slow movement of this storm will also lead to heavy rainfall.

Locations impacted include...
Cross City, Shamrock, Cross City Airport, Old Town, Eugene, Yellow
Jacket and Fanning Springs.

LAT...LON 2956 8295 2954 8298 2952 8297 2952 8298
      2947 8298 2945 8301 2941 8302 2954 8319
      2965 8316 2970 8310 2964 8295 2963 8297
      2961 8297 2958 8295 2959 8294
TIME...MOT...LOC 1654Z 292DEG 8KT 2956 8307

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 8:45 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		60 min
Jun 12, 11:02 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		88 min
Jun 13, 6:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	35 min
Jun 13, 11:28 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Bay, Gulf	15 hr
Jun 13, 1:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lafayette	45 min
Jun 13, 2:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	36 min
Jun 13, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		61 min
Jun 13, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		54 min
Jun 13, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Taylor	52 min
Jun 13, 4:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	68 min
Jun 13, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		93 min
Jun 13, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		100 min
Jun 13, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		64 min
Jun 13, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	41 min
Jun 13, 6:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes, Washington	41 min
Jun 13, 7:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	24 min
Jun 13, 7:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington	44 min
Jun 13, 7:31 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		59 min
Jun 13, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Walton, Washington	30 min
Jun 13, 7:49 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		86 min
Jun 13, 6:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.