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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 23, 2021Lafayette County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Jul 23, 2021, 3:01 PM EDT for Lafayette County, Florida. It was in force for 44 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 23, 2021, 3:01 PM EDT (19:01 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2021, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Lafayette County, FL

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 2223 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 800 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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 23, 1:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 1:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 23, 12:54 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
1254 PM EDT Fri Jul 23 2021

FLZ018-GAZ158>160-231745-
Inland Jefferson FL-Brooks GA-Lowndes GA-Thomas GA-
1254 PM EDT Fri Jul 23 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN JEFFERSON...WEST
CENTRAL LOWNDES...SOUTHEASTERN THOMAS AND SOUTHWESTERN BROOKS
COUNTIES UNTIL 145 PM EDT...

At 1253 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Pavo, or 11 miles east of Thomasville, moving southeast at 20 mph.

Pea size hail and winds up to 45 mph are possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Quitman, Boston, Pavo, Barwick, Dixie, Thomasville Municipal A/P,
Grooverville, Patten, Eason, Oaklawn, Pidcock, Empress, Brooks Co
A/p, Blue Springs, Hollis and Ashville.

LAT...LON 3067 8346 3065 8352 3065 8361 3064 8361
      3064 8360 3062 8360 3058 8370 3087 8392
      3099 8379 3080 8337
TIME...MOT...LOC 1653Z 309DEG 18KT 3090 8379

21-WD

Special weather statement, Jul 23, 2:58 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
258 PM EDT Fri Jul 23 2021

GAZ129-146>148-231945-
Berrien GA-Tift GA-Colquitt GA-Cook GA-
258 PM EDT Fri Jul 23 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL COOK...CENTRAL BERRIEN...
NORTHEASTERN COLQUITT AND TIFT COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM EDT...

At 258 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Unionville, or near Tifton, moving southeast at 25 mph.

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

Locations impacted include...
Tifton, Nashville, Adel, Sparks, Enigma, Omega, Norman Park, Lenox,
Alapaha, Unionville, Phillipsburg, Eldorado, Massee, Flat Ford,
Harding, Wagon Wheel, Vanceville, Cottle, Cook Co A/P and Cool
Spring.

LAT...LON 3109 8338 3127 8367 3133 8368 3133 8365
      3142 8365 3155 8344 3151 8339 3149 8338
      3148 8338 3148 8334 3129 8309
TIME...MOT...LOC 1858Z 315DEG 23KT 3139 8344

55-SCHOLL

Special weather statement, Jul 23, 3:01 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
301 PM EDT Fri Jul 23 2021

FLZ028-029-034-231945-
Inland Taylor FL-Inland Dixie FL-Lafayette FL-
301 PM EDT Fri Jul 23 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR LAFAYETTE...NORTHEASTERN DIXIE
AND NORTHEASTERN TAYLOR COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM EDT...

At 301 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 14
miles north of Cross City, moving southeast at 25 mph.

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

Locations impacted include...
Mayo, Cross City, Tennille, Cooks Hammock, Shamrock, Clara, Cross
City Airport, Old Town, Chancey, Smith, Buckville, Guaranto Springs,
Alton, Mayo Junction, Townsend, Hines, Grady, Hatch Bend, Eugene and
Fletcher.

LAT...LON 2976 8295 2970 8294 2970 8296 2961 8297
      2958 8295 2959 8294 2954 8298 2947 8299
      2948 8304 2982 8341 3025 8342 3026 8325
      3011 8323 3010 8318 3010 8312 3008 8307
      2996 8293 2989 8292 2988 8288
TIME...MOT...LOC 1901Z 315DEG 23KT 2984 8312

55-SCHOLL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 9:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	26 min
Jul 23, 3:11 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Bay, Gulf	19 hr
Jul 23, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson, Leon	64 min
Jul 23, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
Jul 23, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden, Jackson	47 min
Jul 23, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
Jul 23, 6:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	44 min
Jul 23, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Liberty	76 min
Jul 23, 7:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	41 min
Jul 23, 7:28 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Jul 23, 7:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Franklin, Gulf	79 min
Jul 23, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Jul 23, 7:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay, Walton	81 min
Jul 23, 12:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks	51 min
Jul 23, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien, Cook, Tift	47 min
Jul 23, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Cook	35 min
Jul 23, 3:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Colquitt	114 min
Jul 23, 4:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Colquitt	115 min
Jul 23, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee	43 min
Jul 23, 4:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Grady	42 min
Jul 23, 4:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Lee	118 min
Jul 23, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Grady	46 min
Jul 23, 4:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dougherty	114 min
Jul 23, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Early	46 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.