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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2021, 4:02 PM EDT for Berrien County, Irwin County, Tift County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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
- Aug 1, 2021, 4:02 PM EDT (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2021, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Berrien County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Tift County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 166 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1672 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
174
WWUS82 KTAE 012002
SPSTAE
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
402 PM EDT Sun Aug 1 2021
GAZ127>131-148-012045-
Berrien GA-Tift GA-Worth GA-Irwin GA-Turner GA-Ben Hill GA-
402 PM EDT Sun Aug 1 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR IRWIN...NORTHERN BERRIEN...
SOUTHEASTERN TURNER...TIFT...SOUTHEASTERN BEN HILL AND EAST CENTRAL
WORTH COUNTIES UNTIL 445 PM EDT...
At 402 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from Broxton to near Tifton. Movement was southeast
at 30 mph.
Winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with these storms.
Locations impacted include...
Tifton, Ocilla, Fitzgerald, Enigma, Alapaha, Mystic, Unionville,
Phillipsburg, Gladys, Osierfield, Glory, Harding, Waterloo, Pinetta,
Inaha, Ashton, Irwinville, Shingler, Wray and Vanceville.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
&&
LAT...LON 3166 8301 3164 8301 3161 8306 3155 8306
3148 8311 3147 8314 3146 8315 3144 8314
3140 8314 3139 8312 3136 8310 3134 8307
3131 8306 3126 8331 3158 8380 3175 8300
3166 8300
TIME...MOT...LOC 2002Z 293DEG 26KT 3163 8288 3152 8353
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 8:14 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Holmes, Walton | 2 hr |
| Jul 31, 8:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Washington | 41 min |
| Jul 31, 10:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jackson | 30 min |
| Jul 31, 10:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gadsden | 38 min |
| Jul 31, 10:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Holmes | 3 hr |
| Jul 31, 10:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Holmes | 52 min |
| Aug 1, 6:34 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 86 min | |
| Aug 1, 7:36 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 54 min | |
| Aug 1, 3:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Wakulla | 41 min |
| Aug 1, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden | 29 min |
| Aug 1, 5:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 45 min |
| Aug 1, 5:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jefferson | 38 min |
| Aug 1, 6:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 52 min | |
| Aug 1, 6:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Madison | 45 min |
| Aug 1, 6:37 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Jefferson | 113 min |
| Jul 31, 8:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Ben Hill, Irwin, Tift, Turner, Worth | 45 min |
| Jul 31, 9:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Berrien, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes | 38 min |
| Jul 31, 9:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Berrien, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes | 45 min |
| Jul 31, 10:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Brooks | 52 min |
| Jul 31, 11:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Grady | 35 min |
| Jul 31, 11:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Grady | 51 min |
| Aug 1, 2:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun | 48 min |
| Aug 1, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Brooks, Colquitt, Cook | 33 min |
| Aug 1, 4:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Decatur, Grady, Miller, Thomas | 28 min |
| Aug 1, 4:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Decatur, Grady, Seminole and 1 more | 42 min |
| Aug 1, 5:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Lanier | 44 min |
| Aug 1, 5:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Decatur | 2 hr |
| Jul 31, 8:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Dale | 29 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.