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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 23, 20224 counties in Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2022, 2:48 PM EDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2022, 2:48 PM EDT (18:48 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2022, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Gadsden County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Wakulla County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 21 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 nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 273 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: 1536 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 620 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 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 severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 23, 1:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 1:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 23, 2:19 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 23, 2:28 PM EDT, 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 23, 2:31 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 23, 2:31 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 23, 2:35 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 23, 2:44 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
244 PM EDT Mon May 23 2022

FLZ016-017-026-027-231930-
Liberty FL-Gadsden FL-Inland Wakulla FL-Leon FL-
244 PM EDT Mon May 23 2022

...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Wakulla, south central Gadsden, central Liberty and southwestern Leon
Counties through 330 PM EDT...

At 242 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 17
miles southeast of Blountstown, moving northeast at 15 mph.

HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Telogia, Jewel Fire Tower, Brown House, Vilas, Hosford, Wetumpka,
Bloxham, Clio and Lowry.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3014 8485 3029 8496 3052 8464 3029 8448
TIME...MOT...LOC 1842Z 237DEG 14KT 3026 8483

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

73-YOUNG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 8:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lafayette	30 min
May 22, 8:54 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		66 min
May 22, 9:57 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		93 min
May 22, 10:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		90 min
May 22, 10:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	25 min
May 22, 11:09 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		99 min
May 22, 11:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay, Gulf, Holmes, Walton, Washington	93 min
May 23, 12:59 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
May 23, 1:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	33 min
May 23, 1:45 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		60 min
May 23, 2:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay, Washington	44 min
May 23, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	33 min
May 23, 2:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	41 min
May 23, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	46 min
May 23, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Jackson	49 min
May 23, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Jackson, Liberty, Washington	43 min
May 23, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Liberty	20 min
May 23, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	51 min
May 23, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson	42 min
May 23, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
May 23, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
May 22, 10:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	34 min
May 23, 4:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Early	34 min
May 23, 5:22 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Early, Miller	23 min
May 23, 12:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Grady	39 min
May 23, 12:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Thomas	46 min
May 23, 12:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Grady, Thomas	41 min
May 23, 1:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker, Miller	39 min
May 23, 2:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Cook	28 min
May 23, 2:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien, Cook	29 min
May 23, 2:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Thomas	39 min
May 23, 3:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Miller, Seminole	41 min
May 23, 3:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt, Mitchell, Tift	38 min
May 23, 3:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Decatur	23 min
May 23, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur	27 min
May 23, 3:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Thomas	41 min
May 23, 3:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lanier	24 min
May 23, 4:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay, Early	48 min
May 23, 4:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks, Thomas	40 min
May 23, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien	53 min
May 23, 4:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Quitman	33 min
May 23, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt, Mitchell	40 min
May 23, 4:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Randolph, Terrell	41 min
May 23, 3:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	40 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.