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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 31, 20227 counties in Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2022, 6:42 AM CDT for 7 counties in Florida. It was in force for 93 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 31, 2022, 6:42 AM CDT (11:42 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2022, 8:15 AM CDT
In force: 93 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Calhoun County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Wakulla County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 31, 5:40 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 50 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: 42 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1100 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 31, 6:11 AM CDT, 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 6:11 AM CDT, 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 31, 4:49 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
549 AM EDT THU MAR 31 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0510 AM     TORNADO          2 ESE ORANGE HILL       30.66N 85.49W
03/31/2022                   WASHINGTON         FL   NWS EMPLOYEE

            RADAR CONFIRMED TDS WITH POWER OUTAGES IN
            THE SAME AREA.

&&

Local storm report, Mar 31, 5:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
606 AM EDT THU MAR 31 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0557 AM     TSTM WND DMG     RECOTA BEACH            30.30N 85.60W
03/31/2022                   BAY                FL   PUBLIC

            VIA FACEBOOK A USER COMMENTED THAT TREES
            WERE BEING BLOWN DOWN AT RESOTA BEACH.
            LOCATION IS ESTIMATED.

&&

KR

Local storm report, Mar 31, 5:10 AM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
610 AM EDT THU MAR 31 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0521 AM     TORNADO          1 NE STEELE CITY        30.73N 85.38W
03/31/2022                   JACKSON            FL   EMERGENCY MNGR

            AT LEAST TWO HOMES DAMAGED ALONG HIGHWAY 231
            BETWEEN ALFORD AND I-10.

&&

Local storm report, Mar 31, 5:42 AM CDT, 1 hour before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
642 AM EDT THU MAR 31 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0526 AM     TSTM WND DMG     2 NNE KYNESVILLE        30.76N 85.35W
03/31/2022                   JACKSON            FL   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            FHP REPORTS A TRACTOR-TRAILER WAS FORCED OFF
            I-10 DUE TO A POSSIBLE TORNADO. UNKNOWN
            AMOUNT OF DIESEL SPILLED.

&&

Local storm report, Mar 31, 6:05 AM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 31, 6:32 AM CDT, 10 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 31, 1:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Bay, Holmes, Walton, Washington	89 min
Mar 31, 1:23 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
Mar 31, 2:31 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Walton	29 min
Mar 31, 2:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington	83 min
Mar 31, 2:52 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Walton	38 min
Mar 31, 3:42 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Washington	33 min
Mar 31, 3:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Jackson, Washington	96 min
Mar 31, 4:03 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jackson, Washington	27 min
Mar 31, 4:20 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay, Washington	25 min
Mar 31, 4:23 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TAE	Jackson	23 min
Mar 31, 4:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay	24 min
Mar 31, 4:43 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
Mar 31, 5:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Liberty	83 min
Mar 31, 5:29 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gulf	61 min
Mar 31, 5:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Bay	113 min
Mar 31, 6:19 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
Mar 31, 7:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	96 min
Mar 31, 9:03 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
Mar 31, 11:48 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
Mar 31, 12:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	36 min
Mar 31, 2:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	51 min
Mar 31, 5:07 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Madison, Taylor	37 hr
Mar 31, 10:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Irwin	31 min
Mar 31, 12:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	29 min
Mar 31, 2:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Geneva	56 min
Mar 31, 2:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Houston	57 min
Mar 31, 3:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	76 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.