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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 12, 2021Dixie County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 12, 2021, 7:23 PM EDT for Dixie County, Florida. It was in force for 52 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 12, 2021, 7:23 PM EDT (23:23 UTC)
Expired: Aug 12, 2021, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Dixie County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 1222 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 866 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -48 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

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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 Aug 12, 7:19 PM EDT, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 7:19 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 12, 6:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 12, 6:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 12, 6:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Aug 12, 6:26 PM EDT, 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 12, 6:48 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 12, 7:23 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 11, 8:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lafayette	65 min
Aug 11, 9:02 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	TAE	Dixie, Levy	11 days
Aug 11, 9:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie, Lafayette	51 min
Aug 11, 9:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie, Lafayette	25 min
Aug 11, 10:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor	41 min
Aug 11, 11:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	44 min
Aug 12, 12:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	32 min
Aug 12, 12:33 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	117 min
Aug 12, 12:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	26 min
Aug 12, 12:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Franklin	37 min
Aug 12, 12:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	33 min
Aug 12, 1:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Liberty	30 min
Aug 12, 1:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	47 min
Aug 12, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		27 min
Aug 12, 2:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Liberty	60 min
Aug 12, 2:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden	53 min
Aug 12, 3:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Washington	67 min
Aug 12, 3:11 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		64 min
Aug 12, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Walton, Washington	42 min
Aug 12, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Washington	60 min
Aug 12, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	50 min
Aug 12, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	31 min
Aug 12, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	29 min
Aug 12, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison, Taylor	44 min
Aug 12, 6:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie, Lafayette	42 min
Aug 12, 6:50 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		115 min
Aug 11, 11:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Lowndes, Thomas	112 min
Aug 11, 11:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Grady	38 min
Aug 12, 12:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks	24 min
Aug 12, 12:12 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt	48 min
Aug 12, 12:48 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Colquitt, Dougherty, Irwin, Mitchell, Tift, Worth	117 min
Aug 12, 12:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Thomas	50 min
Aug 12, 12:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Tift, Worth	47 min
Aug 12, 4:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Miller	55 min
Aug 11, 8:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee	38 min
Aug 12, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Houston	46 min
Aug 12, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dale, Henry	39 min
Aug 12, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale, Henry	35 min
Aug 12, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	19 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.