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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 12, 2021Jackson County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Jul 12, 2021, 6:56 PM CDT for Jackson County, Florida. It was in force for 34 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: Jul 12, 2021, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 2021, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Jackson County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 1382 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 910 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 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 Jul 12, 6:54 PM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 6:54 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 12, 4:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
525 PM EDT MON JUL 12 2021

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0456 PM     TSTM WND DMG     3 NE CECIL              31.07N 83.36W
07/12/2021                   COOK               GA   911 CALL CENTER

            TREE DOWN ON OLD COFFEE ROAD. TIME ESTIMATED
            BY RADAR.

&&

KGG

Local storm report, Jul 12, 4:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
527 PM EDT MON JUL 12 2021

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0502 PM     TSTM WND DMG     4 SSE MASSEE            31.13N 83.33W
07/12/2021                   COOK               GA   911 CALL CENTER

            TREE DOWN ON REGISTER ROAD.

&&

KGG

Local storm report, Jul 12, 4:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
528 PM EDT MON JUL 12 2021

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0504 PM     TSTM WND DMG     1 SSW MASSEE            31.17N 83.36W
07/12/2021                   COOK               GA   911 CALL CENTER

            TREE DOWN ON BOONE ROAD. TIME ESTIMATED BY
            RADAR.

&&

KGG

Local storm report, Jul 12, 4:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
546 PM EDT MON JUL 12 2021

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0429 PM     TSTM WND DMG     5 SW MOODY AFB          30.93N 83.25W
07/12/2021                   LOWNDES            GA   EMERGENCY MNGR

            ROOF OFF A BARN NEAR OLD PINE ROAD AND
            MULLIGAN ROAD. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR.

&&

KGG

Special weather statement, Jul 12, 5:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
601 PM EDT Mon Jul 12 2021

FLZ029-034-122245-
Inland Dixie FL-Lafayette FL-
601 PM EDT Mon Jul 12 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN LAFAYETTE AND
NORTHEASTERN DIXIE COUNTIES UNTIL 645 PM EDT...

At 600 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles northwest of Bell, moving north at 20 mph.

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

Locations impacted include...
Hatch Bend, Guaranto Springs, Grady and Fletcher Springs.

LAT...LON 2983 8289 2983 8292 2981 8293 2980 8292
      2976 8295 2974 8307 3002 8321 3006 8305
      3001 8300 2999 8296 2996 8295 2996 8293
      2995 8292 2989 8292 2990 8290 2988 8289
      2988 8288
TIME...MOT...LOC 2200Z 165DEG 18KT 2983 8299

55-SCHOLL

Special weather statement, Jul 12, 6:56 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
656 PM CDT Mon Jul 12 2021

FLZ009>012-130030-
Holmes FL-Inland Bay FL-Jackson FL-Washington FL-
656 PM CDT Mon Jul 12 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN JACKSON...EASTERN HOLMES
AND NORTHEASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTIES UNTIL 730 PM CDT...

At 656 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles south of Chipley, moving northeast at 15 mph.

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

Locations impacted include...
Chipley, Graceville, Bonifay, Marianna, Bradford, Malone, Cottondale,
Alford, Wausau, Esto, Campbellton, Noma, Richter Crossroads, Tendil
Crossing, Holland Crossroads, Cobb Crossroads, Jacobs, Noma Junction,
Bahoma and Compass Lake.

LAT...LON 3100 8569 3100 8511 3057 8536 3057 8538
      3051 8539 3067 8571
TIME...MOT...LOC 2356Z 218DEG 13KT 3068 8558

55-SCHOLL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 12, 8:17 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		58 min
Jul 12, 10:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	41 min
Jul 12, 10:18 AM CDT	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Walton	37 hr
Jul 12, 11:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun	41 min
Jul 12, 12:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	45 min
Jul 12, 1:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	41 min
Jul 12, 5:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lafayette	44 min
Jul 12, 10:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	41 min
Jul 12, 12:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Seminole	48 min
Jul 12, 1:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Miller, Seminole	39 min
Jul 12, 1:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Early, Miller	52 min
Jul 12, 2:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun	48 min
Jul 12, 2:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay	44 min
Jul 12, 2:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay, Quitman	66 min
Jul 12, 2:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	48 min
Jul 12, 3:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee, Worth	49 min
Jul 12, 3:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lanier, Lowndes	43 min
Jul 12, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes	37 min
Jul 12, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Lowndes, Tift	40 min
Jul 12, 4:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee	41 min
Jul 12, 4:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien	35 min
Jul 12, 4:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien, Irwin, Tift	52 min
Jul 12, 1:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	41 min
Jul 12, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dale, Houston	38 min
Jul 12, 2:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	27 min
Jul 12, 2:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Houston	47 min
Jul 12, 2:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Henry	32 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.