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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 589, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 9, 2023, 8:50 PM EST for Clay County, Quitman County, Randolph County, Georgia; Henry County, Alabama. It was in force for 25 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
- Dec 9, 2023, 8:50 PM EST (01:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 9, 2023, 9:15 PM EST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Henry County, AL, Clay County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:49 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 nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 891 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 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 Dec 9, 8:16 PM EST, 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 9, 8:16 PM EST, 34 minutes before
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</html>In the hours before
Special weather statement, Dec 9, 8:38 PM EST, 12 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
838 PM EST Sat Dec 9 2023
ALZ067-GAZ121-100215-
Henry AL-Clay GA-
838 PM EST Sat Dec 9 2023
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHEASTERN HENRY AND
NORTHWESTERN CLAY COUNTIES THROUGH 915 PM EST/815 PM CST/...
At 837 PM EST/737 PM CST/, Doppler radar was tracking a strong
thunderstorm near Fort Gaines, moving northeast at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Fort Gaines, Days Crossroads, Shorterville, Walter F. George Lock And
Dam, Walter F George Lake, Standleys Store, Otho, Watson Crossroads,
Double Bridges, Moores Crossroads, Ricks Place, Pecan, Garnersville,
Screamer, Coates, Bagby State Park, Thomas Mill Creek, Jones
Crossing, Bethel, and Cotton Hill.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 3178 8508 3177 8507 3178 8496 3172 8496
3171 8495 3168 8495 3167 8493 3166 8493
3152 8509 3163 8526 3177 8516 3176 8513
3177 8512 3178 8514
TIME...MOT...LOC 0137Z 217DEG 34KT 3164 8512
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
21-HANERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 9, 8:42 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Walton, Washington | 2 hr |
| Dec 10, 4:09 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Wakulla | 5 hr |
| Dec 10, 4:33 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 117 min | |
| Dec 10, 4:54 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 96 min | |
| Dec 10, 5:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton | 45 min |
| Dec 10, 5:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Walton, Washington | 32 min |
| Dec 10, 5:47 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Holmes | 28 min |
| Dec 10, 6:13 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 3 hr | |
| Dec 10, 6:29 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes, Washington | 33 min |
| Dec 10, 6:46 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes, Washington | 17 min |
| Dec 10, 7:14 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Bay, Washington | 3 hr |
| Dec 10, 7:20 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jackson | 40 min |
| Dec 10, 7:29 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Bay | 46 min |
| Dec 10, 7:32 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gadsden | 43 min |
| Dec 10, 8:05 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Liberty | 55 min |
| Dec 10, 8:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Leon and 2 more | 93 min |
| Dec 10, 8:20 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 3 hr | |
| Dec 10, 8:24 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Liberty | 21 min |
| Dec 10, 8:33 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Liberty | 117 min |
| Dec 10, 9:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 90 min |
| Dec 10, 9:18 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Gadsden, Gulf, Liberty | 117 min |
| Dec 10, 9:42 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 3 hr | |
| Dec 10, 9:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson | 85 min |
| Dec 10, 9:54 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon | 51 min |
| Dec 10, 10:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Madison | 57 min |
| Dec 10, 10:31 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Jefferson, Wakulla | 44 min |
| Dec 10, 10:41 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Liberty, Wakulla | 2 hr |
| Dec 10, 11:07 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 113 min | |
| Dec 10, 11:26 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Jefferson, Leon, Wakulla | 2 hr |
| Dec 10, 11:30 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Taylor | 30 min |
| Dec 10, 12:51 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 114 min | |
| Dec 10, 1:46 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Lafayette | 44 min |
| Dec 10, 4:39 PM EST | River Flood Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison, Taylor | 21 days |
| Dec 10, 4:45 PM EST | Wind Advisory | TAE | Bay, Dixie, Franklin, Gulf, Taylor, Walton | 4 hr |
| Dec 10, 5:44 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison and 2 more | 91 min |
| Dec 10, 6:59 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Madison, Taylor | 61 min |
| Dec 9, 8:38 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Clay | 37 min |
| Dec 9, 9:10 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Quitman | 20 min |
| Dec 10, 2:50 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Clay, Quitman | 25 min |
| Dec 10, 8:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Early, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole | 36 min |
| Dec 10, 9:05 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Mitchell | 40 min |
| Dec 10, 9:08 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Worth | 52 min |
| Dec 10, 12:54 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Coffee | 36 min |
| Dec 10, 1:11 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 2 hr |
| Dec 10, 2:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry | 30 min |
| Dec 10, 2:22 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry | 38 min |
| Dec 10, 5:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 50 min |
| Dec 10, 7:35 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Henry | 40 min |
| Dec 10, 7:36 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Henry | 22 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.