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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2023, 12:09 PM EST for Gadsden County, Jefferson County, Leon County, Florida; Grady County, Thomas County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 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
- Mar 10, 2023, 12:09 PM EST (17:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2023, 1:00 PM EST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Gadsden County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Grady County, GA, Thomas County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1375 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 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 Mar 10, 10:44 AM EST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 10:44 AM EST, 1 hour 25 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 3:43 AM EST | Rip Current Statement | TAE | Bay, Gulf | 21 hr |
| Mar 10, 11:30 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gadsden | 45 min |
| Mar 10, 12:52 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jefferson | 53 min |
| Mar 10, 1:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison | 13 min |
| Mar 10, 1:56 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun | 49 min |
| Mar 10, 2:21 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jefferson, Leon | 39 min |
| Mar 10, 2:31 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun | 44 min |
| Mar 10, 2:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon | 38 min |
| Mar 10, 2:55 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jefferson | 23 min |
| Mar 10, 3:24 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jefferson | 36 min |
| Mar 10, 3:24 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gadsden | 51 min |
| Mar 10, 3:27 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Madison | 48 min |
| Mar 10, 3:35 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gadsden | 25 min |
| Mar 10, 3:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Madison | 44 min |
| Mar 10, 3:48 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun | 42 min |
| Mar 10, 4:08 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Madison | 37 min |
| Mar 10, 4:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lafayette, Madison | 43 min |
| Mar 10, 4:42 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gadsden | 48 min |
| Mar 10, 5:01 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Taylor | 44 min |
| Mar 10, 5:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lafayette, Madison, Taylor | 41 min |
| Mar 10, 6:12 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Lafayette | 63 min |
| Mar 10, 12:19 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Baker, Ben Hill, Dougherty, Irwin, Mitchell, Tift and 1 more | 56 min |
| Mar 10, 12:43 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Early, Miller | 47 min |
| Mar 10, 2:52 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes, Thomas | 38 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.