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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 8, 20245 counties in Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2024, 3:35 PM EDT for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 70 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: Aug 8, 2024, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2024, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 70 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Lowndes County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 275 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: 596 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 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 Aug 8, 1:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 1:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 8, 1:34 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 2:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 3:22 PM EDT, 13 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
Aug 8, 2:57 AM EDT	Excessive Heat Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	17 hr
Aug 8, 1:05 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		115 min
Aug 8, 1:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	TAE	Madison	5 days
Aug 8, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Franklin	48 min
Aug 8, 5:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	35 min
Aug 8, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	35 min
Aug 8, 6:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	32 min
Aug 8, 2:59 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	TAE	Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt and 13 more	17 hr
Aug 8, 3:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks	38 min
Aug 8, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lanier, Lowndes	19 min
Aug 8, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	15 min
Aug 8, 7:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin	26 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.