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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 14, 2021Henry County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2021, 1:47 PM CDT for Henry County, Alabama. 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 14, 2021, 1:47 PM CDT (18:47 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2021, 2:30 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Henry County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 695 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1064 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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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 14, 12:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 12:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 14, 1:47 PM CDT, 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 13, 7:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	28 min
Aug 13, 9:15 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		92 min
Aug 14, 2:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	37 min
Aug 14, 2:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	43 min
Aug 14, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Wakulla	30 min
Aug 14, 2:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	46 min
Aug 14, 3:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	33 min
Aug 14, 3:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	36 min
Aug 14, 3:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Liberty	27 min
Aug 14, 3:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Franklin	47 min
Aug 14, 4:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	29 min
Aug 14, 4:20 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	TAE		12 hr
Aug 14, 4:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	52 min
Aug 14, 4:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay, Calhoun	50 min
Aug 14, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Walton, Washington	35 min
Aug 14, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		61 min
Aug 14, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	31 min
Aug 14, 5:42 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		33 min
Aug 14, 5:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	35 min
Aug 14, 6:09 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		66 min
Aug 14, 6:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	37 min
Aug 14, 1:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Quitman	38 min
Aug 14, 1:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun	34 min
Aug 14, 2:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Quitman	35 min
Aug 14, 3:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee	40 min
Aug 14, 3:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dougherty, Lee, Terrell	35 min
Aug 14, 4:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dougherty, Mitchell	28 min
Aug 14, 4:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Miller	36 min
Aug 14, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dale, Henry, Houston	11 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.