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High Surf Warning 1, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 15, 2022Bay County, Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this high surf warning at Jan 15, 2022, 2:28 PM CST for Bay County, Gulf County, Florida. It took effect at Jan 16, 2022, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 15 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 15, 2022, 2:28 PM CST (20:28 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 16, 2022, 6:00 AM CST
Expired
Jan 16, 2022, 9:00 PM CST
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Bay County, FL, Gulf County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 363 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2022-01-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2022-01-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high surf warning 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 high surf warning went out at Jan 15, 12:10 PM CST, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 15, 12:10 PM CST, 2 hours 18 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 15, 2:11 AM CSTHigh Surf AdvisoryTAEBay, Gulf, Walton52 hr
Jan 15, 2:22 AM CSTWind AdvisoryTAEBay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more46 hr
Jan 15, 2:27 PM CSTSmall Craft AdvisoryTAE52 hr
Jan 15, 2:28 PM CSTHigh Surf AdvisoryTAEBay, Gulf40 hr
Jan 15, 5:16 PM CSTSpecial Marine WarningTAE3 hr
Jan 15, 5:25 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementTAEGulf50 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.