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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 569, NWS Tallahassee, FL

September 7, 20234 counties in Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 2023, 3:59 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 46 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: Sep 7, 2023, 3:59 PM EDT (19:59 UTC)
Expired: Sep 7, 2023, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Baker County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Terrell County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 1437 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 924 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 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 Sep 7, 1:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 1:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 7, 3:05 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 7, 3:25 PM EDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 7, 3:31 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 7, 3:33 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 7, 3:47 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 7, 3:52 PM EDT, 7 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
Sep 7, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	29 min
Sep 7, 4:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	52 min
Sep 7, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	39 min
Sep 7, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	43 min
Sep 7, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon, Madison	51 min
Sep 7, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	41 min
Sep 7, 5:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Leon	119 min
Sep 7, 5:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	56 min
Sep 7, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Walton	20 min
Sep 7, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Leon	30 min
Sep 7, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon	51 min
Sep 7, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	51 min
Sep 7, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee	47 min
Sep 7, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dougherty	45 min
Sep 7, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Turner	40 min
Sep 7, 3:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Lee, Terrell, Turner, Worth	40 min
Sep 7, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Mitchell	35 min
Sep 7, 3:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Lee, Terrell	3 hr
Sep 7, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Grady	42 min
Sep 7, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee	43 min
Sep 7, 3:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dougherty	38 min
Sep 7, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Mitchell	43 min
Sep 7, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Thomas	43 min
Sep 7, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Mitchell, Worth	43 min
Sep 7, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Irwin	49 min
Sep 7, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Grady	50 min
Sep 7, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Grady	48 min
Sep 7, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Decatur	45 min
Sep 7, 6:04 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Grady	3 hr
Sep 7, 6:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Grady	44 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.