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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 30, 2024Dale County, Houston County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 2024, 5:38 PM CDT for Dale County, Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 37 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 30, 2024, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 2024, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Dale County, AL, Houston County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 248 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: 1295 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 539 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.3

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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 30, 2:26 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 2:26 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 30, 1:01 PM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 30, 2:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 30, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 30, 3:11 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 30, 3:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 30, 5:29 PM CDT, 9 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
Jul 30, 2:09 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	17 hr
Jul 30, 6:22 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		53 min
Jul 30, 8:00 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		62 min
Jul 30, 10:31 AM CDT	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Gulf	8 hr
Jul 30, 11:10 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		43 min
Jul 30, 11:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Franklin	46 min
Jul 30, 11:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	44 min
Jul 30, 12:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	48 min
Jul 30, 12:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Liberty, Wakulla	34 min
Jul 30, 1:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	59 min
Jul 30, 1:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	59 min
Jul 30, 1:08 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		97 min
Jul 30, 2:12 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	29 hr
Jul 29, 7:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Randolph, Terrell	60 min
Jul 29, 8:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dougherty, Lee, Terrell, Worth	47 min
Jul 29, 9:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee, Turner	42 min
Jul 29, 11:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lanier	45 min
Jul 30, 2:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker, Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth	59 min
Jul 30, 3:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Early, Miller	49 min
Jul 30, 3:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Decatur	40 min
Jul 30, 5:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	46 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.