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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 16, 2023Jackson County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2023, 4:31 PM CDT for Jackson County, Florida. It was in force for 44 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: May 16, 2023, 4:31 PM CDT (21:31 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2023, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Jackson County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 294 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: 469 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 651 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 16, 3:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 16, 3:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 16, 3:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 16, 3:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 16, 3:49 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 16, 4:01 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 16, 4:20 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 16, 4:21 PM 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
May 16, 11:56 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		19 min
May 16, 1:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Calhoun	2 hr
May 16, 1:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	24 min
May 16, 1:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	32 min
May 16, 2:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Jefferson, Leon	118 min
May 16, 2:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun	23 min
May 16, 2:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson, Leon, Wakulla	32 min
May 16, 2:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	31 min
May 16, 2:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Calhoun	113 min
May 16, 4:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	24 min
May 16, 4:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	26 min
May 16, 4:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Jackson, Washington	2 hr
May 16, 5:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	32 min
May 16, 1:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Thomas	27 min
May 16, 2:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Brooks, Thomas	116 min
May 16, 3:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt	34 min
May 16, 3:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Cook	32 min
May 16, 5:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Terrell	23 min
May 16, 6:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Quitman	36 min
May 16, 12:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	34 min
May 16, 2:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Henry	29 min
May 16, 3:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva	26 min
May 16, 4:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	29 min
May 16, 4:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva	25 min
May 16, 4:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	25 min
May 16, 4:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva	28 min
May 16, 5:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	25 min
May 16, 5:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva	37 min
May 16, 5:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	32 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.