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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2024, 3:12 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 31 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 27, 2024, 3:12 PM EDT (19:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2024, 3:43 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Clay County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Terrell County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 27, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 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
- 1360 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 563 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 27, 2:13 PM EDT, 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 2:13 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 2:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Quitman, Randolph | 45 min |
| May 27, 2:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Randolph | 50 min |
| May 27, 4:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Lee | 23 min |
| May 27, 4:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Randolph | 48 min |
| May 27, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Clay, Randolph | 40 min |
| May 27, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Clay, Lee, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell | 93 min |
| May 27, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Turner | 40 min |
| May 27, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Irwin, Turner, Worth | 92 min |
| May 27, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Irwin, Tift, Turner, Worth | 86 min |
| May 27, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Early, Randolph, Terrell | 52 min |
| May 27, 6:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Ben Hill, Berrien, Irwin, Tift, Turner | 114 min |
| May 27, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Tift | 60 min |
| May 27, 7:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Lee, Terrell | 53 min |
| May 27, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes | 97 min |
| May 27, 7:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Randolph | 40 min |
| May 27, 7:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Dougherty | 53 min |
| May 27, 7:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Clay | 61 min |
| May 27, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Geneva | 52 min |
| May 27, 7:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Henry | 58 min |
| May 27, 7:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Coffee, Dale | 65 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.