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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 2, 2021Houston County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2021, 3:13 PM CDT for Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 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 2, 2021, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2021, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Houston County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 2573 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

565 
WWUS82 KTAE 022013
SPSTAE

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
313 PM CDT Mon Aug 2 2021
 
ALZ069-022100-
Houston AL-
313 PM CDT Mon Aug 2 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL HOUSTON COUNTY UNTIL 400
PM CDT...

At 313 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Cottonwood, moving north at 15 mph.

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

Locations impacted include...
Cottonwood, Dothan, Taylor, Kinsey, Ashford, Cowarts, Webb, Rehobeth,
Avon, Memphis, Sigma, Pearce, Enon, Lovetown, Wilson Mill, Barber,
Olympia Spa Resort, Keytons, Ardilla and Hodgesville.

LAT...LON 3131 8530 3129 8512 3105 8531 3107 8546
      3129 8544 3129 8542 3131 8542
TIME...MOT...LOC 2013Z 199DEG 15KT 3108 8538 

$$

55-SCHOLL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 9:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gulf, Jefferson and 5 more	5 days
Aug 2, 4:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	41 min
Aug 2, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		94 min
Aug 1, 8:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee, Turner, Worth	49 min
Aug 1, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lee, Turner, Worth	29 min
Aug 1, 9:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin, Lee, Tift, Turner, Worth	47 min
Aug 1, 9:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin	34 min
Aug 1, 9:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dougherty, Worth	47 min
Aug 2, 2:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee	37 min
Aug 2, 2:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Randolph, Terrell	2 hr
Aug 2, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker	43 min
Aug 2, 3:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien	44 min
Aug 2, 3:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Worth	23 min
Aug 2, 3:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Randolph	53 min
Aug 2, 3:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Worth	47 min
Aug 2, 3:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Randolph, Terrell	42 min
Aug 2, 4:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Turner	46 min
Aug 2, 4:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dougherty, Lee, Worth	111 min
Aug 2, 5:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Cook, Lanier	40 min
Aug 2, 6:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lanier	49 min
Aug 2, 6:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Berrien, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes	2 hr
Aug 2, 2:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Henry	44 min
Aug 2, 2:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva	48 min
Aug 2, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	46 min
Aug 2, 5:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Coffee	2 hr

Nearby

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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.