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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 171, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 3, 2024Lowndes County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2024, 6:07 PM EDT for Lowndes County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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: Jul 3, 2024, 6:07 PM EDT (22:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2024, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Lowndes County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 677 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 885 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 1 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -1 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 Jul 3, 3:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 3:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 4:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
440 PM EDT Wed Jul 3 2024

FLZ019-028-032115-
Inland Taylor FL-Madison FL-
440 PM EDT Wed Jul 3 2024

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHEASTERN TAYLOR AND MADISON
COUNTIES THROUGH 515 PM EDT...

At 440 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles southwest of Madison, moving southwest at 10 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Madison, Lee, Lake Bird, Moseley Hall, Ebb, Hopewell, Cherry Lake,
Hanson, Sirmans, and Shady Grove.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3026 8331 3026 8337 3022 8337 3015 8358
      3038 8370 3061 8343 3056 8326 3052 8324
      3047 8324 3046 8322 3042 8322 3041 8321
      3041 8319 3040 8318 3039 8318
TIME...MOT...LOC 2040Z 064DEG 9KT 3035 8347

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

21-HANER

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 5:49 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
549 PM EDT Wed Jul 3 2024

GAZ160-032230-
Lowndes GA-
549 PM EDT Wed Jul 3 2024

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHEASTERN LOWNDES COUNTY
THROUGH 630 PM EDT...

At 548 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Statenville, moving west at 15 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Lake Park, Valdosta, Dasher, I-75 At Exit 5, Twin Lakes, I-75 At Exit
11, and Valdosta Regional Airport.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3080 8313 3077 8314 3076 8313 3063 8314
      3063 8330 3085 8329 3083 8310 3080 8310
TIME...MOT...LOC 2148Z 090DEG 12KT 3072 8306

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

73-YOUNG

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 9:20 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	11 hr
Jul 3, 9:23 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Walton	3 hr
Jul 3, 3:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Jefferson, Madison, Taylor	76 min
Jul 3, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	35 min
Jul 3, 4:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Madison	99 min
Jul 3, 6:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Calhoun, Liberty	2 hr
Jul 3, 6:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Calhoun, Jackson	100 min
Jul 3, 1:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin, Tift	3 hr
Jul 3, 4:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dougherty, Lee, Mitchell, Worth	2 hr
Jul 3, 5:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	41 min
Jul 3, 6:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Lowndes	2 hr
Jul 3, 7:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Decatur	2 hr
Jul 3, 7:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Grady, Thomas	119 min
Jul 3, 7:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Thomas	101 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.