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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 27, 2023Jackson County, Florida; Early County, Miller County, Seminole County, Georgia; Houston County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 2023, 2:18 PM CDT for Jackson County, Florida; Early County, Miller County, Seminole County, Georgia; Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 30 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 27, 2023, 2:18 PM CDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired: Mar 27, 2023, 2:48 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Houston County, AL, Jackson County, FL, Early County, GA, Miller County, GA, Seminole County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 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 27, 10:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 245 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -134 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 783 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 27, 12:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 27, 12:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 27, 12:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 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 26, 7:51 PM CDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	TAE		14 hr
Mar 26, 7:53 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	TAE	Dixie, Franklin, Jefferson, Taylor, Wakulla	14 hr
Mar 27, 1:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	64 min
Mar 27, 2:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Holmes, Walton	3 hr
Mar 27, 4:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	48 min
Mar 27, 6:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	36 min
Mar 27, 6:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	33 min
Mar 27, 11:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay	56 min
Mar 27, 12:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Quitman	40 min
Mar 27, 1:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay	43 min
Mar 27, 1:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Turner	57 min
Mar 27, 1:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Early	64 min
Mar 27, 2:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Miller, Seminole	66 min
Mar 27, 3:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien, Tift	38 min
Mar 27, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Cook, Tift	51 min
Mar 27, 4:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Thomas	41 min
Mar 27, 5:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes	54 min
Mar 27, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien, Cook	34 min
Mar 27, 5:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Thomas	38 min
Mar 27, 11:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva	53 min
Mar 27, 11:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Coffee, Dale	3 hr
Mar 27, 12:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	35 min
Mar 27, 12:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dale, Henry	116 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2023 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2023 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2023 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2023

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.