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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 8, 2023Walton County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2023, 2:21 PM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 24 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 8, 2023, 2:21 PM CDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2023, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Walton County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 3142 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 4.5

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The text

As transmitted.

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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 7, 6:22 PM CDT, 19 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 6:22 PM CDT, 19 hours 59 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 7, 7:19 PM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	24 hr
Aug 8, 3:07 AM CDT	Excessive Heat Watch	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	17 hr
Aug 8, 10:25 AM CDT	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Bay, Gulf, Walton	12 hr
Aug 8, 12:01 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		28 min
Aug 8, 1:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	50 min
Aug 8, 1:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	26 min
Aug 8, 2:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	24 min
Aug 8, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	43 min
Aug 8, 2:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	23 min
Aug 8, 3:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	27 min
Aug 8, 3:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	41 min
Aug 8, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson	69 min
Aug 7, 7:19 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	TAE	Ben Hill, Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Irwin, Lee and 6 more	24 hr
Aug 8, 2:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Grady	27 min
Aug 8, 2:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks	28 min
Aug 8, 2:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay	49 min
Aug 8, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Early, Quitman, Randolph	90 min
Aug 8, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lee, Terrell	86 min
Aug 8, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Turner, Worth	67 min
Aug 8, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Tift, Worth	65 min
Aug 8, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Berrien, Irwin	71 min
Aug 8, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier	86 min
Aug 8, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes, Thomas	95 min
Aug 8, 1:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	35 min
Aug 8, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Henry, Houston	72 min
Aug 8, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Geneva, Houston	54 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.