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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 26, 2021Gilchrist County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Jun 26, 2021, 3:46 PM EDT for Gilchrist County, Florida. It was in force for 29 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 26, 2021, 3:46 PM EDT (19:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2021, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Gilchrist County, FL

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 886 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 724 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 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 26, 1:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 1:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 3:46 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
346 PM EDT Sat Jun 26 2021

FLZ029-034-262015-
Inland Dixie FL-Lafayette FL-
346 PM EDT Sat Jun 26 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN LAFAYETTE AND
NORTHEASTERN DIXIE COUNTIES UNTIL 415 PM EDT...

At 345 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Bell, moving west at 30 mph.

Winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Cross City, Shamrock, Cross City Airport, Old Town, Hatch Bend,
Eugene, Fletcher, Guaranto Springs, Fletcher Springs and Fanning
Springs.

LAT...LON 2983 8290 2982 8293 2980 8292 2976 8295
      2972 8294 2972 8296 2970 8294 2970 8296
      2961 8297 2958 8295 2959 8294 2957 8295
      2962 8322 2996 8312 2993 8292 2989 8292
      2990 8290 2986 8288
TIME...MOT...LOC 1945Z 094DEG 27KT 2975 8290

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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 26, 11:42 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Bay	10 hr
Jun 26, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lafayette	62 min
Jun 26, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	30 min
Jun 26, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	51 min
Jun 26, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	32 min
Jun 26, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lowndes	26 min
Jun 26, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks	37 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.