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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS Tallahassee, FL

November 30, 2022Coffee County, Dale County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 30, 2022, 5:02 AM CST for Coffee County, Dale County, Alabama. It was in force for 58 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: Nov 30, 2022, 5:02 AM CST (11:02 UTC)
Expired: Nov 30, 2022, 6:00 AM CST
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:01 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 30, 4:34 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 954 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 402 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 531 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Nov 30, 3:21 AM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 30, 3:21 AM CST, 1 hour 41 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
Nov 30, 1:19 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	TAE		57 hr
Nov 30, 4:37 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		83 min
Nov 30, 6:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson, Washington	60 min
Nov 30, 6:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	74 min
Nov 30, 6:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes	32 min
Nov 30, 7:22 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		113 min
Nov 30, 7:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Jackson, Walton, Washington	98 min
Nov 30, 7:35 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Walton	21 min
Nov 30, 7:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson, Washington	61 min
Nov 30, 7:54 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay, Walton	36 min
Nov 30, 8:01 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay, Washington	29 min
Nov 30, 8:19 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay	26 min
Nov 30, 8:21 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Leon, Liberty and 1 more	84 min
Nov 30, 8:25 AM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay	35 min
Nov 30, 8:46 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		119 min
Nov 30, 9:12 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson, Lafayette, Madison, Taylor	93 min
Nov 30, 9:15 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Nov 30, 9:24 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Franklin	66 min
Nov 30, 9:49 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		116 min
Nov 30, 9:52 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	38 min
Nov 30, 10:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin	25 min
Nov 30, 10:27 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Nov 30, 10:37 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		113 min
Nov 30, 10:38 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie, Lafayette	82 min
Nov 30, 6:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell	53 min
Nov 30, 7:10 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Dougherty, Lee, Terrell, Worth	50 min
Nov 30, 8:27 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Lanier and 3 more	93 min
Nov 30, 8:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Grady, Lanier and 3 more	89 min
Nov 30, 10:00 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lanier	15 min
Nov 30, 5:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	64 min
Nov 30, 6:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Henry	51 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.