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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 3, 2022Lowndes County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at May 3, 2022, 5:42 PM EDT for Lowndes County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 3, 2022, 5:42 PM EDT (21:42 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2022, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 40

County Lowndes County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 982 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 683 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 6:18 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	TAE	Bay, Holmes, Walton, Washington	3 hr
May 3, 3:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	27 min
May 3, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	32 min
May 3, 3:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	24 min
May 3, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	33 min
May 3, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	13 min
May 3, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	29 min
May 3, 4:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lafayette	40 min
May 3, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lafayette, Madison	46 min
May 3, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Madison	51 min
May 3, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Turner	27 min
May 3, 4:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Tift	23 min
May 3, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	28 min
May 3, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Grady	28 min
May 3, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	45 min
May 3, 6:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien, Cook	47 min
May 3, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	36 min
May 3, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Tift	58 min
May 3, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien	33 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.