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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 29, 20214 counties in Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 29, 2021, 11:30 AM CDT for 4 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 45 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 29, 2021, 11:30 AM CDT (16:30 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 2021, 12:15 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

Counties Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Houston County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:29 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 912 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 139 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 29, 10:41 AM CDT, 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 10:41 AM CDT, 49 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 29, 9:51 AM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 29, 9:54 AM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 29, 10:15 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 29, 10:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 29, 10:59 AM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 29, 11:30 AM 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 28, 9:43 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		62 min
Aug 28, 9:47 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		88 min
Aug 28, 10:00 PM CDT	Tropical Storm Warning	TAE		17 hr
Aug 28, 11:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Franklin, Gulf	60 min
Aug 28, 11:10 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		50 min
Aug 28, 11:14 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		61 min
Aug 28, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Gulf, Liberty	42 min
Aug 28, 11:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty, Wakulla	35 min
Aug 29, 12:02 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		88 min
Aug 29, 1:27 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		93 min
Aug 29, 2:11 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		34 min
Aug 29, 2:36 AM CDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	TAE	Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Jefferson, Wakulla, Walton	25 hr
Aug 29, 2:54 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		51 min
Aug 29, 3:06 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		24 min
Aug 29, 5:26 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		52 min
Aug 29, 7:49 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		26 min
Aug 29, 8:18 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		42 min
Aug 29, 8:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay, Gulf	38 min
Aug 29, 8:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gulf	29 min
Aug 29, 8:53 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		37 min
Aug 29, 8:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	50 min
Aug 29, 9:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay, Gulf	34 min
Aug 29, 9:29 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		31 min
Aug 29, 9:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	29 min
Aug 29, 9:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	39 min
Aug 29, 10:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes, Washington	38 min
Aug 29, 10:26 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		49 min
Aug 29, 10:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson	31 min
Aug 29, 11:14 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		46 min
Aug 29, 12:49 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		86 min
Aug 29, 1:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Holmes, Walton, Washington	50 min
Aug 29, 2:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington	48 min
Aug 29, 3:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Taylor	39 min
Aug 29, 4:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Bay, Walton, Washington	114 min
Aug 29, 4:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	35 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.