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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

December 30, 2021Baker County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Dec 30, 2021, 6:30 PM EST for Baker County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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: Dec 30, 2021, 6:30 PM EST (23:30 UTC)
Expired: Dec 30, 2021, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Baker County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 850 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 3.9

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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 Dec 30, 6:27 PM EST, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 30, 6:27 PM EST, 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Dec 30, 4:49 PM EST, 1 hour 41 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
449 PM EST Thu Dec 30 2021

GAZ147-148-160-161-302230-
Berrien GA-Lanier GA-Lowndes GA-Cook GA-
449 PM EST Thu Dec 30 2021

...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southeastern Cook,
southeastern Berrien, Lanier and northwestern Lowndes Counties
through 530 PM EST...

At 449 PM EST, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 6 miles northeast of Ray City to near Hahira.
Movement was east at 45 mph.

HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and half inch hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Nashville, Lakeland, Hahira, Ray City, Moody Air Force Base, Meigs,
Cecil, Courthouse, Cottle, Berrien Co A/P, Greenwood, Barretts, New
Lois, Hansell, I-75 At Exit 29, Allenville, Weber and Teeterville.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3098 8344 3103 8347 3122 8331 3125 8304
      3123 8305 3122 8304 3121 8305 3119 8305
      3119 8298 3118 8297 3094 8297
TIME...MOT...LOC 2149Z 257DEG 39KT 3115 8312 3103 8337

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

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Special weather statement, Dec 30, 5:31 PM EST, 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 30, 5:39 PM EST, 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 30, 5:56 PM EST, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 30, 6:08 PM EST, 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 30, 6:30 PM EST, 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
Dec 30, 8:15 AM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	TAE	Dixie, Franklin, Jefferson, Taylor, Wakulla	4 hr
Dec 30, 8:16 AM EST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	TAE		6 hr
Dec 30, 11:16 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	29 min
Dec 30, 11:41 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	34 min
Dec 30, 2:46 PM EST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	TAE		43 hr
Dec 30, 12:10 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Seminole	35 min
Dec 30, 12:42 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Seminole	48 min
Dec 30, 1:30 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Worth	45 min
Dec 30, 1:31 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Turner	44 min
Dec 30, 1:34 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Turner	26 min
Dec 30, 1:54 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dougherty	51 min
Dec 30, 1:57 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Irwin	48 min
Dec 30, 2:06 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Mitchell	39 min
Dec 30, 2:34 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt	41 min
Dec 30, 3:02 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Cook	58 min
Dec 30, 3:04 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Colquitt	41 min
Dec 30, 3:22 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill	53 min
Dec 30, 3:37 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt	38 min
Dec 30, 3:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Lowndes	63 min
Dec 30, 4:01 PM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Berrien, Cook	44 min
Dec 30, 4:16 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Quitman	29 min
Dec 30, 4:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Quitman, Randolph	36 min
Dec 30, 4:49 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lanier	41 min
Dec 30, 5:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Dougherty, Randolph, Terrell	51 min
Dec 30, 5:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Early	47 min
Dec 30, 5:31 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lanier	44 min
Dec 30, 5:56 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Clay	34 min
Dec 30, 6:08 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lanier	37 min
Dec 30, 6:52 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dougherty	38 min
Dec 30, 4:25 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	35 min
Dec 30, 4:49 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Henry	26 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.