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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 528, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2023, 3:50 PM CDT for Geneva County, Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 54 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 8, 2023, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2023, 4:44 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Geneva County, AL, Houston County, AL
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 3142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 614 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
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 7, 6:22 PM CDT, 21 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 6:22 PM CDT, 21 hours 28 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 7:19 PM CDT | Excessive Heat Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 24 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:07 AM CDT | Excessive Heat Watch | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 17 hr |
| Aug 8, 10:25 AM CDT | Rip Current Statement | TAE | Bay, Gulf, Walton | 12 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:01 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 28 min | |
| Aug 8, 1:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 50 min |
| Aug 8, 1:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Walton | 26 min |
| Aug 8, 2:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 24 min |
| Aug 8, 2:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Walton | 24 min |
| Aug 8, 2:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Walton | 43 min |
| Aug 8, 2:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jefferson | 23 min |
| Aug 8, 3:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jefferson | 27 min |
| Aug 8, 3:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Holmes | 41 min |
| Aug 8, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 69 min |
| Aug 7, 7:19 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | TAE | Ben Hill, Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Irwin, Lee and 6 more | 24 hr |
| Aug 8, 2:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Grady | 27 min |
| Aug 8, 2:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Brooks | 28 min |
| Aug 8, 2:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Clay | 49 min |
| Aug 8, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Early, Quitman, Randolph | 90 min |
| Aug 8, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lee, Terrell | 86 min |
| Aug 8, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Turner, Worth | 67 min |
| Aug 8, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Tift, Worth | 65 min |
| Aug 8, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Berrien, Irwin | 71 min |
| Aug 8, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier | 86 min |
| Aug 8, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes, Thomas | 95 min |
| Aug 8, 1:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Coffee | 35 min |
| Aug 8, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Henry, Houston | 72 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.