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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 394, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 2, 2023Dale County, Henry County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2023, 3:05 PM CDT for Dale County, Henry County, Alabama. It was in force for 70 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: Jul 2, 2023, 3:05 PM CDT (20:05 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2023, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 70 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Dale County, AL, Henry County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 3 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 228 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: 651 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -205 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1087 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 54 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 Jul 2, 2:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 2:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 2, 1:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 2, 2:26 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 2, 2:31 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 2, 2:47 PM CDT, 18 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
Jul 1, 7:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	40 min
Jul 1, 9:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	34 min
Jul 1, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Jackson	60 min
Jul 1, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Jackson	55 min
Jul 1, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	19 min
Jul 2, 1:49 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson and 8 more	16 hr
Jul 2, 2:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	49 min
Jul 2, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	43 min
Jul 2, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Taylor	28 min
Jul 2, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Taylor	55 min
Jul 2, 4:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	48 min
Jul 2, 5:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	51 min
Jul 2, 5:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	25 min
Jul 1, 7:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt	13 min
Jul 1, 8:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker, Mitchell	28 min
Jul 1, 8:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker, Decatur, Mitchell	44 min
Jul 1, 8:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Turner, Worth	39 min
Jul 1, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Seminole	46 min
Jul 1, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Irwin, Tift, Turner, Worth	51 min
Jul 1, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady	48 min
Jul 1, 10:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks	34 min
Jul 1, 10:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Thomas	46 min
Jul 1, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Thomas	54 min
Jul 2, 4:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay, Early	40 min
Jul 2, 4:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay	44 min
Jul 2, 5:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun	43 min
Jul 2, 6:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Worth	41 min
Jul 2, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Lee, Turner, Worth	81 min
Jul 2, 6:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lanier, Lowndes	31 min
Jul 2, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes	74 min
Jul 1, 7:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	53 min
Jul 2, 2:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	44 min
Jul 2, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dale, Henry	39 min
Jul 2, 4:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	42 min
Jul 2, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee	68 min
Jul 2, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Houston	46 min
Jul 2, 5:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Houston	48 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.