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High Surf Warning 1, NWS Tallahassee, FL
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.
- 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
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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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 2:11 AM CST | High Surf Advisory | TAE | Bay, Gulf, Walton | 52 hr |
| Jan 15, 2:22 AM CST | Wind Advisory | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 46 hr |
| Jan 15, 2:27 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | TAE | 52 hr | |
| Jan 15, 2:28 PM CST | High Surf Advisory | TAE | Bay, Gulf | 40 hr |
| Jan 15, 5:16 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 3 hr | |
| Jan 15, 5:25 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gulf | 50 min |
Nearby
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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.