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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 9, 2022Dixie County, Lafayette County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2022, 4:39 PM EST for Dixie County, Lafayette County, Florida. It was in force for 22 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: Mar 9, 2022, 4:39 PM EST (21:39 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 2022, 5:01 PM EST
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Dixie County, FL, Lafayette County, FL

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 935 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 474 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 3.1

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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 Mar 9, 3:21 PM EST, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 3:21 PM EST, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 9, 11:30 AM EST, 5 hours 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 9, 11:37 AM EST, 5 hours 2 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
Mar 8, 8:59 PM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	TAE	Bay, Dixie, Franklin, Gulf, Jefferson, Taylor and 1 more	10 hr
Mar 9, 4:28 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	47 min
Mar 9, 4:50 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
Mar 9, 5:05 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	40 min
Mar 9, 5:14 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	61 min
Mar 9, 5:46 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	59 min
Mar 9, 5:53 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Washington	46 min
Mar 9, 6:24 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jackson	53 min
Mar 9, 6:43 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	47 min
Mar 9, 7:30 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	30 min
Mar 9, 7:45 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Mar 9, 8:00 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Liberty, Wakulla	30 min
Mar 9, 8:20 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Liberty	40 min
Mar 9, 8:52 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	23 min
Mar 9, 9:09 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Liberty, Wakulla	36 min
Mar 9, 9:25 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Liberty	35 min
Mar 9, 9:34 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Wakulla	41 min
Mar 9, 9:37 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		113 min
Mar 9, 9:44 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Mar 9, 10:04 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Wakulla	27 min
Mar 9, 10:16 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	59 min
Mar 9, 10:28 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	62 min
Mar 9, 10:35 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Taylor	55 min
Mar 9, 11:30 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lafayette, Taylor	60 min
Mar 9, 11:33 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		55 min
Mar 9, 2:01 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		119 min
Mar 9, 3:47 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		118 min
Mar 9, 7:19 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Seminole	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.