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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 273, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 14, 20235 counties in Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2023, 7:21 PM EDT for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 84 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 14, 2023, 7:21 PM EDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2023, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 84 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Berrien County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lowndes County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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
Jun 14, 6:41 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 1769 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 756 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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 14, 7:21 PM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 7:21 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 14, 6:38 PM EDT, 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 14, 6:40 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 14, 6:56 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 14, 6:57 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 14, 7:06 PM EDT, 15 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 14, 3:14 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Bay, Gulf, Walton	21 hr
Jun 14, 3:37 AM EDT	Flood Watch	TAE	Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Madison and 1 more	64 hr
Jun 14, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington	83 min
Jun 14, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	TAE	Jackson	33 min
Jun 14, 8:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin	46 min
Jun 14, 10:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay	26 min
Jun 14, 11:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin	33 min
Jun 14, 11:38 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Clay	52 min
Jun 14, 11:47 AM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TAE	Quitman, Randolph	9 min
Jun 14, 12:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Quitman	50 min
Jun 14, 12:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Randolph	48 min
Jun 14, 1:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Clay, Early	25 min
Jun 14, 1:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay	36 min
Jun 14, 1:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Quitman, Randolph	25 min
Jun 14, 1:17 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Early	43 min
Jun 14, 1:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Early	50 min
Jun 14, 1:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lee, Randolph, Terrell	44 min
Jun 14, 1:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Early	48 min
Jun 14, 2:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty	38 min
Jun 14, 2:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Early	41 min
Jun 14, 2:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Lee, Randolph, Terrell	115 min
Jun 14, 2:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Lee, Turner, Worth	46 min
Jun 14, 3:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TAE	Baker, Dougherty, Mitchell	42 min
Jun 14, 3:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes	41 min
Jun 14, 3:35 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin, Turner, Worth	40 min
Jun 14, 3:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Worth	38 min
Jun 14, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell	47 min
Jun 14, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Dougherty, Lee, Terrell	67 min
Jun 14, 4:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin, Turner	49 min
Jun 14, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin, Tift, Turner, Worth	63 min
Jun 14, 4:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Quitman, Randolph, Terrell	6 hr
Jun 14, 4:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Mitchell	39 min
Jun 14, 4:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Lee	6 hr
Jun 14, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lee, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell	48 min
Jun 14, 4:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Irwin	35 min
Jun 14, 4:49 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Dougherty	6 hr
Jun 14, 4:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Mitchell, Turner, Worth	49 min
Jun 14, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Quitman, Randolph	80 min
Jun 14, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Dougherty, Lee, Randolph, Terrell	77 min
Jun 14, 5:29 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Worth	6 hr
Jun 14, 5:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Tift, Worth	43 min
Jun 14, 5:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth	39 min
Jun 14, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lee, Terrell	62 min
Jun 14, 5:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Dougherty	4 hr
Jun 14, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier, Tift	80 min
Jun 14, 6:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Berrien	50 min
Jun 14, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Early, Mitchell and 2 more	69 min
Jun 14, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Decatur, Early and 5 more	88 min
Jun 14, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Early, Miller, Randolph	71 min
Jun 14, 11:58 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Coffee	25 min
Jun 14, 12:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Dale, Henry, Houston	52 min
Jun 14, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	93 min
Jun 14, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Henry	46 min
Jun 14, 7:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Geneva, Houston	57 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.