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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2023, 5:31 PM EST for Calhoun County, Clay County, Early County, Georgia; Henry County, Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 59 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
- Jan 3, 2023, 5:31 PM EST (22:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2023, 6:30 PM EST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Early County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 4:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 Jan 3, 4:02 PM EST, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 4:02 PM EST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 4:13 AM EST | Rip Current Statement | TAE | Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Walton | 19 hr |
| Jan 3, 1:55 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 95 min | |
| Jan 3, 3:00 PM EST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 19 hr | |
| Jan 3, 3:13 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | Dixie, Franklin, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon, Madison and 2 more | 13 hr |
| Jan 3, 2:37 AM EST | Flood Watch | TAE | Clay, Quitman, Randolph | 35 hr |
| Jan 3, 6:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Randolph, Terrell | 54 min |
Nearby
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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.