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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 506, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2023, 2:02 PM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 43 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
- Aug 5, 2023, 2:02 PM CDT (19:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2023, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 291 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1093 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 5, 12:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 12:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 7:02 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 90 min | |
| Aug 4, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Walton, Washington | 38 min |
| Aug 4, 7:18 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 117 min | |
| Aug 4, 7:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun, Liberty | 54 min |
| Aug 4, 8:14 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 3 hr | |
| Aug 4, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 82 min |
| Aug 4, 9:10 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 95 min | |
| Aug 4, 10:45 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 60 min | |
| Aug 4, 11:25 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 65 min | |
| Aug 5, 1:26 AM CDT | Rip Current Statement | TAE | Gulf | 20 hr |
| Aug 5, 1:50 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | TAE | Bay, Gulf, Holmes, Walton, Washington | 14 hr |
| Aug 5, 7:56 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 94 min | |
| Aug 5, 8:58 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 92 min | |
| Aug 5, 9:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Dixie | 38 min |
| Aug 5, 10:11 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 64 min | |
| Aug 5, 11:16 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 59 min | |
| Aug 5, 12:16 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 119 min | |
| Aug 5, 12:36 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 114 min | |
| Aug 5, 12:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Bay | 64 min |
| Aug 5, 12:48 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 87 min | |
| Aug 5, 1:04 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 86 min | |
| Aug 5, 1:39 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Aug 5, 1:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Walton | 56 min |
| Aug 5, 1:56 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Walton | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Washington | 53 min |
| Aug 5, 2:26 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 94 min | |
| Aug 5, 2:31 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 28 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Walton | 53 min |
| Aug 5, 3:05 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 55 min | |
| Aug 5, 3:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Bay | 54 min |
| Aug 5, 3:26 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Aug 5, 3:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Bay, Washington | 117 min |
| Aug 5, 3:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Walton | 55 min |
| Aug 5, 3:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Bay | 65 min |
| Aug 5, 4:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Bay, Washington | 59 min |
| Aug 5, 4:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 66 min |
| Aug 5, 4:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Washington | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon | 52 min |
| Aug 5, 4:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Walton | 57 min |
| Aug 5, 4:59 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 56 min | |
| Aug 5, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon, Wakulla | 51 min |
| Aug 5, 6:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Wakulla | 78 min |
| Aug 5, 6:15 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 48 min | |
| Aug 5, 6:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Madison | 56 min |
| Aug 4, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Decatur, Early, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole | 67 min |
| Aug 4, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady | 31 min |
| Aug 5, 5:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Lowndes | 58 min |
| Aug 5, 5:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Brooks, Lowndes | 12 min |
| Aug 5, 5:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lowndes | 106 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.