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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 9, 2024Dixie County, Lafayette County, Taylor County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 9, 2024, 1:19 PM EST for Dixie County, Lafayette County, Taylor County, Florida. It was in force for 40 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: Jan 9, 2024, 1:19 PM EST (18:19 UTC)
Expired: Jan 9, 2024, 1:59 PM EST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Dixie County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Taylor County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 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
Jan 9, 7:07 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 111 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: 9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -151 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 480 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 808 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 914 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

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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 Jan 9, 1:01 PM EST, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 9, 1:01 PM EST, 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 9, 11:57 AM EST, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 9, 12:06 PM EST, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 9, 12:15 PM EST, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 9, 12:44 PM EST, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 9, 12:48 PM EST, 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 9, 12:57 PM EST, 22 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
Jan 9, 4:44 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Jan 9, 5:21 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Walton	24 min
Jan 9, 5:37 AM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	38 min
Jan 9, 5:57 AM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	33 min
Jan 9, 6:07 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		53 min
Jan 9, 6:19 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Holmes, Jackson	41 min
Jan 9, 6:22 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Jackson, Washington	38 min
Jan 9, 6:52 AM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Jackson, Washington	38 min
Jan 9, 6:57 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	93 min
Jan 9, 7:14 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
Jan 9, 7:21 AM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TAE	Jackson	39 min
Jan 9, 7:43 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Walton	47 min
Jan 9, 7:46 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	33 min
Jan 9, 7:49 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Walton	26 min
Jan 9, 8:00 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Walton and 1 more	90 min
Jan 9, 8:19 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay, Walton, Washington	26 min
Jan 9, 8:42 AM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Jackson, Washington	33 min
Jan 9, 8:46 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Jan 9, 8:50 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Holmes, Jackson	25 min
Jan 9, 9:05 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson and 1 more	85 min
Jan 9, 9:10 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Jackson, Liberty	35 min
Jan 9, 9:25 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Liberty	35 min
Jan 9, 9:29 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jackson	19 min
Jan 9, 9:31 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jackson	44 min
Jan 9, 9:53 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	97 min
Jan 9, 10:01 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Jan 9, 10:22 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	23 min
Jan 9, 10:35 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Franklin, Liberty, Wakulla	25 min
Jan 9, 10:43 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	32 min
Jan 9, 11:00 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon, Wakulla	30 min
Jan 9, 11:14 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Jefferson, Madison, Taylor, Wakulla	78 min
Jan 9, 11:31 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Jan 9, 11:58 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Dixie, Lafayette, Madison, Taylor	92 min
Jan 9, 3:59 PM EST	Coastal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dixie, Taylor	15 hr
Jan 9, 7:09 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Early, Randolph	18 min
Jan 9, 7:52 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Early, Miller, Seminole	29 min
Jan 9, 8:54 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Early, Miller and 3 more	96 min
Jan 9, 9:10 AM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TAE	Early	32 min
Jan 9, 9:36 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Early, Miller	23 min
Jan 9, 9:50 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Baker, Colquitt, Dougherty, Lee, Mitchell, Tift and 2 more	85 min
Jan 9, 9:51 AM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Early, Randolph, Terrell	23 min
Jan 9, 10:04 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur	41 min
Jan 9, 10:11 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Lee, Terrell	49 min
Jan 9, 10:35 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Worth	25 min
Jan 9, 11:05 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Ben Hill, Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Lanier and 3 more	85 min
Jan 9, 11:12 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes, Thomas	93 min
Jan 9, 12:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Berrien, Lanier, Lowndes	36 min
Jan 8, 10:02 PM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Dale	12 hr
Jan 9, 6:49 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Henry, Houston	26 min
Jan 9, 7:31 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	89 min
Jan 9, 8:17 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva	118 min
Jan 9, 9:36 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	25 hr

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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.