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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 13, 2023Jackson County, Florida; Geneva County, Houston County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2023, 2:38 PM CDT for Jackson County, Florida; Geneva County, Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 67 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: Jun 13, 2023, 2:38 PM CDT (19:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2023, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Geneva County, AL, Houston County, AL, Jackson County, FL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 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
Jun 13, 12:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 950 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -142 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 874 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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 Jun 13, 12:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 12:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 1:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 1:40 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 1:56 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 1:56 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 2:21 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 13, 2:38 PM CDT, 0 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
Jun 12, 8:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	57 min
Jun 12, 8:29 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		80 min
Jun 12, 8:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	47 min
Jun 12, 9:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	51 min
Jun 12, 9:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	28 min
Jun 13, 1:31 AM CDT	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Bay, Gulf, Walton	21 hr
Jun 13, 12:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	48 min
Jun 13, 1:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	26 min
Jun 13, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Jackson	62 min
Jun 13, 1:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	49 min
Jun 13, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes	68 min
Jun 13, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	73 min
Jun 13, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden	29 min
Jun 13, 3:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Walton	113 min
Jun 13, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Washington	61 min
Jun 13, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	62 min
Jun 13, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Walton	66 min
Jun 13, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Walton, Washington	65 min
Jun 13, 5:17 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		37 min
Jun 13, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Madison	23 min
Jun 12, 7:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun	41 min
Jun 12, 7:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Seminole	43 min
Jun 12, 7:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks	32 min
Jun 12, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lowndes	43 min
Jun 12, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Early, Quitman, Randolph	24 min
Jun 12, 10:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay, Quitman, Randolph	48 min
Jun 13, 1:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Seminole	50 min
Jun 13, 1:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Quitman	69 min
Jun 13, 1:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Turner	34 min
Jun 13, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Early, Lee, Randolph and 1 more	84 min
Jun 13, 2:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Early	39 min
Jun 13, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin, Tift, Turner, Worth	90 min
Jun 13, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady	72 min
Jun 13, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Dougherty, Early, Miller, Terrell	55 min
Jun 13, 3:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Decatur	41 min
Jun 13, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Decatur, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas	60 min
Jun 13, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Dougherty, Lee	31 min
Jun 13, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier, Mitchell, Tift and 1 more	86 min
Jun 13, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin, Tift, Turner, Worth	52 min
Jun 13, 4:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	51 min
Jun 13, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes	59 min
Jun 13, 5:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	45 min
Jun 12, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	27 min
Jun 12, 9:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Houston	38 min
Jun 12, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	44 min
Jun 12, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dale, Henry	38 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.