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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 2, 2024Franklin County, Liberty County, Wakulla County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2024, 2:16 PM EDT for Franklin County, Liberty County, Wakulla County, Florida. It was in force for 36 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: Jun 2, 2024, 2:16 PM EDT (18:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2024, 2:52 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Franklin County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Wakulla County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 291 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: 12 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1046 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 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 Jun 2, 1:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 1:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:26 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:53 PM EDT, 23 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
Jun 2, 1:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	34 min
Jun 2, 1:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	67 min
Jun 2, 1:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Wakulla	86 min
Jun 2, 2:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	63 min
Jun 2, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		88 min
Jun 2, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Franklin	43 min
Jun 2, 4:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	52 min
Jun 2, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Jackson, Liberty	49 min
Jun 2, 4:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Gulf, Liberty	114 min
Jun 2, 4:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Calhoun, Jackson, Liberty	2 hr
Jun 2, 5:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Gulf	88 min
Jun 2, 5:27 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Calhoun	93 min
Jun 2, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Grady, Thomas	54 min
Jun 2, 6:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Seminole	38 min
Jun 2, 6:27 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Decatur, Seminole	2 hr
Jun 2, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Decatur	45 min
Jun 2, 6:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur	42 min
Jun 2, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun	28 min
Jun 2, 7:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Geneva, Houston	62 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.