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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 13, 20244 counties in Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2024, 8:08 AM CDT for 4 counties in Alabama. 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 2024, 8:08 AM CDT (13:08 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2024, 8:32 AM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Houston County, AL

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 13, 5:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1406 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 298 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 May 13, 6:27 AM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 6:27 AM CDT, 1 hour 41 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
May 13, 3:59 AM CDT	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Walton	8 days
May 13, 4:01 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	TAE		47 hr
May 13, 9:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	46 min
May 13, 10:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	25 min
May 13, 10:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty, Wakulla	37 min
May 13, 10:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	78 min
May 13, 10:45 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
May 13, 10:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Liberty, Wakulla	48 min
May 13, 11:11 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		52 min
May 13, 11:34 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay, Walton, Washington	26 min
May 13, 11:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Walton and 1 more	63 min
May 13, 12:11 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		94 min
May 13, 12:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Gulf	35 min
May 13, 12:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Bay	2 hr
May 13, 12:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Franklin, Gulf	62 min
May 13, 1:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lafayette	25 min
May 13, 1:10 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	TAE	Bay, Gulf, Walton	3 hr
May 13, 1:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Lafayette	12 min
May 13, 1:44 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
May 13, 1:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf, Liberty	62 min
May 13, 2:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	32 min
May 13, 3:26 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
May 13, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		119 min
May 13, 4:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	57 min
May 13, 4:39 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
May 13, 4:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Wakulla	2 hr
May 13, 5:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	118 min
May 13, 6:35 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		55 min
May 13, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Irwin, Lanier, Lowndes and 1 more	57 min
May 13, 6:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien, Lanier	37 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.