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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 25, 2023Coffee County, Dale County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 2023, 5:15 PM CDT for Coffee County, Dale County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 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 25, 2023, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 2023, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 285 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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 Mar 25, 2:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 2:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 25, 3:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 25, 3:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 25, 4:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 25, 4:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 25, 4:42 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 25, 5:04 PM CDT, 11 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
Mar 25, 8:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	40 min
Mar 25, 8:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	59 min
Mar 25, 9:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson	55 min
Mar 25, 1:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Jackson	41 min
Mar 25, 1:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson	49 min
Mar 25, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson	50 min
Mar 25, 9:09 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TAE	Early	15 min
Mar 25, 9:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Early, Miller, Mitchell and 1 more	64 min
Mar 25, 10:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Mitchell	45 min
Mar 25, 10:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker, Dougherty, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole	62 min
Mar 25, 11:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Miller, Mitchell	48 min
Mar 25, 11:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Mitchell	28 min
Mar 25, 11:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Mitchell, Tift, Worth	53 min
Mar 25, 12:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien, Irwin, Tift	60 min
Mar 25, 12:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Berrien, Colquitt, Cook	25 min
Mar 25, 12:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Berrien, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes	30 min
Mar 25, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Cook, Lanier	40 min
Mar 25, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Decatur, Grady, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole and 1 more	38 min
Mar 25, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Randolph, Terrell	30 min
Mar 25, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Grady, Thomas	49 min
Mar 25, 3:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Early	41 min
Mar 25, 3:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Quitman	40 min
Mar 25, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Early	19 min
Mar 25, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Lowndes, Thomas	67 min
Mar 25, 4:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay, Randolph	48 min
Mar 25, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell	25 min
Mar 25, 5:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lanier	56 min
Mar 25, 6:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Quitman	27 min
Mar 25, 7:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva	48 min
Mar 25, 7:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Geneva	30 min
Mar 25, 7:56 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Geneva	34 min
Mar 25, 8:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Geneva, Henry, Houston	16 min
Mar 25, 12:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Houston	38 min
Mar 25, 3:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Houston	50 min
Mar 25, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Coffee	48 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.