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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 23, 2022Franklin County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 23, 2022, 9:11 AM EDT for Franklin County, Florida. It was in force for 64 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 23, 2022, 9:11 AM EDT (13:11 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 2022, 10:15 AM EDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Franklin County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 290 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 490 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 346 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 438 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 4.7

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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 23, 6:52 AM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 23, 6:52 AM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 23, 8:05 AM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 23, 8:25 AM EDT, 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 23, 8:37 AM EDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 23, 8:54 AM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 23, 9:09 AM EDT, 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 23, 9:11 AM EDT, 0 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 22, 10:44 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	TAE	Calhoun	23 hr
Mar 22, 11:04 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	TAE	Walton, Washington	3 days
Mar 23, 2:58 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
Mar 23, 4:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Holmes, Walton, Washington	97 min
Mar 23, 5:04 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Walton	56 min
Mar 23, 5:58 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
Mar 23, 6:54 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Mar 23, 7:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	34 min
Mar 23, 7:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	23 min
Mar 23, 7:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	46 min
Mar 23, 7:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Washington	63 min
Mar 23, 8:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson, Washington	35 min
Mar 23, 8:32 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		118 min
Mar 23, 8:54 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson, Washington	51 min
Mar 23, 9:53 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Mar 23, 10:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	46 min
Mar 23, 11:04 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	11 hr
Mar 23, 11:10 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson, Leon	50 min
Mar 23, 11:18 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		117 min
Mar 23, 12:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	30 min
Mar 23, 12:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Taylor	44 min
Mar 23, 12:37 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		113 min
Mar 23, 1:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lafayette, Madison, Taylor	46 min
Mar 23, 1:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	50 min
Mar 23, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		93 min
Mar 23, 6:56 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Quitman, Randolph	49 min
Mar 23, 7:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Randolph	15 min
Mar 23, 7:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Early	44 min
Mar 23, 10:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt, Cook	37 min
Mar 23, 11:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien, Cook, Lanier	62 min
Mar 23, 6:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Henry	34 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.