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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 4, 20235 counties in Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2023, 9:15 AM EDT for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 4, 2023, 9:15 AM EDT (13:15 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2023, 10:00 AM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

Counties Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:16 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, 1.3 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.

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: 295 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1095 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 4, 6:47 AM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 6:47 AM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 9:15 AM EDT, 0 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
Aug 4, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden, Madison	53 min
Aug 4, 6:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	29 min
Aug 4, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Madison	64 min
Aug 4, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	59 min
Aug 4, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Madison, Taylor	41 min
Aug 4, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lafayette	52 min
Aug 4, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon, Taylor, Wakulla	65 min
Aug 4, 7:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	57 min
Aug 4, 7:22 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		113 min
Aug 4, 7:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Wakulla	40 min
Aug 4, 7:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor	73 min
Aug 4, 7:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	37 min
Aug 4, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Mitchell	47 min
Aug 4, 3:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt	39 min
Aug 4, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes	96 min
Aug 4, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Early	45 min
Aug 4, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	85 min
Aug 4, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Henry	67 min
Aug 4, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Geneva, Houston	76 min

Nearby

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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.