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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 22, 2023Thomas County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2023, 9:17 AM EDT for Thomas County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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 22, 2023, 9:17 AM EDT (13:17 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2023, 9:45 AM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Thomas County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 63 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: 1703 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 692 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.9

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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 22, 6:48 AM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 6:48 AM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 22, 8:58 AM EDT, 19 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 22, 3:37 AM EDT	Flood Watch	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	46 hr
May 22, 11:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	44 min
May 22, 12:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	38 min
May 22, 12:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	35 min
May 22, 1:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	36 min
May 22, 1:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	47 min
May 22, 1:21 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		39 min
May 22, 1:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	18 min
May 22, 1:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	28 min
May 22, 1:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	3 hr
May 22, 2:02 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		43 min
May 22, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	48 min
May 22, 2:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	40 min
May 22, 2:49 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		40 min
May 22, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	49 min
May 22, 3:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Calhoun, Liberty	3 hr
May 22, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Jackson, Liberty	56 min
May 22, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	45 min
May 22, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Washington	54 min
May 22, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Franklin	39 min
May 22, 5:06 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Liberty	114 min
May 22, 5:24 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		66 min
May 22, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin	36 min
May 22, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes, Washington	57 min
May 22, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	36 min
May 22, 5:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Holmes, Jackson	3 hr
May 22, 5:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Washington	2 hr
May 22, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Franklin	45 min
May 22, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	45 min
May 22, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton, Washington	58 min
May 22, 7:20 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		55 min
May 22, 8:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Thomas	47 min
May 22, 9:48 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Thomas	42 min
May 22, 10:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks	45 min
May 22, 11:26 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dougherty, Lee	109 min
May 22, 12:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Irwin, Turner	117 min
May 22, 12:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill	24 min
May 22, 1:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Miller, Seminole	45 min
May 22, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Early, Miller	35 min
May 22, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Seminole	48 min
May 22, 2:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien	54 min
May 22, 2:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Early, Miller	48 min
May 22, 3:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Early	40 min
May 22, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lanier	47 min
May 22, 4:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Early	3 hr
May 22, 5:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Baker, Colquitt, Decatur, Early, Grady, Miller and 3 more	114 min
May 22, 5:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dale, Houston	3 hr

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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.