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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 516, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 6, 20234 counties in Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2023, 5:35 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 40 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 6, 2023, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2023, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Dougherty County, GA, Lee County, GA, Turner County, GA, Worth County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 198 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: 1698 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 936 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 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 Aug 6, 3:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 3:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 6, 4:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 4:35 PM EDT, 1 hour before

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 5:15 PM EDT, 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 5:24 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 6, 5:25 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 6, 5:26 PM EDT, 9 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
Aug 6, 3:02 AM EDT	Excessive Heat Watch	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	17 hr
Aug 6, 3:02 AM EDT	Excessive Heat Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Holmes, Walton, Washington	17 hr
Aug 6, 7:54 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		96 min
Aug 6, 12:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	37 min
Aug 6, 1:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Walton, Washington	35 min
Aug 6, 1:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	47 min
Aug 6, 1:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay	29 min
Aug 6, 2:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	51 min
Aug 6, 2:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	40 min
Aug 6, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Jackson, Liberty	56 min
Aug 6, 3:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	38 min
Aug 6, 3:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden, Liberty	55 min
Aug 6, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	28 min
Aug 6, 4:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	57 min
Aug 6, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Wakulla	65 min
Aug 6, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		92 min
Aug 6, 5:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon	54 min
Aug 6, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Taylor	46 min
Aug 6, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lafayette	47 min
Aug 6, 3:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Quitman	23 min
Aug 6, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay	44 min
Aug 6, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Miller	33 min
Aug 6, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Early, Miller, Terrell	40 min
Aug 6, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker, Dougherty, Lee, Miller, Mitchell	45 min
Aug 6, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Colquitt, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas	77 min
Aug 6, 6:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Turner	49 min
Aug 6, 6:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks	47 min
Aug 6, 6:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin, Tift, Turner	56 min
Aug 6, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lowndes	21 min
Aug 6, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Berrien, Irwin, Tift, Turner	63 min
Aug 6, 7:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lanier, Lowndes	43 min
Aug 6, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Quitman, Randolph	90 min
Aug 6, 3:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	24 min
Aug 6, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	27 min
Aug 6, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	62 min
Aug 6, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dale, Geneva, Houston	27 min
Aug 6, 5:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva	36 min
Aug 6, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	36 min
Aug 6, 5:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	26 min
Aug 6, 6:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	27 min
Aug 6, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	35 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.