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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 233, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 29, 2024, 1:05 AM CST for Coffee County, Alabama. It was in force for 85 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
- Dec 29, 2024, 1:05 AM CST (07:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 29, 2024, 2:30 AM CST
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Coffee County, AL
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 29, 12:54 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 211 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 358 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 475 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Dec 28, 11:21 PM CST, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 28, 11:21 PM CST, 1 hour 44 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 29, 1:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton, Washington | 98 min |
| Dec 29, 2:49 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 3 hr | |
| Dec 29, 2:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton, Washington | 97 min |
| Dec 29, 3:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 26 min |
| Dec 29, 3:51 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 114 min | |
| Dec 29, 4:03 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton, Washington | 27 min |
| Dec 29, 4:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Washington | 39 min |
| Dec 29, 4:48 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Jackson | 72 min |
| Dec 29, 5:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay | 24 min |
| Dec 29, 5:08 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Dec 29, 5:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf | 50 min |
| Dec 29, 5:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Jackson | 45 min |
| Dec 29, 5:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gulf | 26 min |
| Dec 29, 6:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Liberty | 54 min |
| Dec 29, 6:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Liberty | 43 min |
| Dec 29, 6:32 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Liberty | 43 min |
| Dec 29, 6:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 78 min |
| Dec 29, 6:48 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 87 min | |
| Dec 29, 7:21 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Taylor, Wakulla | 39 min |
| Dec 29, 7:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison, Taylor | 67 min |
| Dec 29, 7:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison | 36 min |
| Dec 29, 8:01 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 89 min | |
| Dec 29, 8:31 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Dixie, Lafayette, Madison | 29 min |
| Dec 29, 3:31 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Early, Terrell | 59 min |
| Dec 29, 4:23 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Baker, Calhoun, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Early and 8 more | 67 min |
| Dec 29, 5:29 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Ben Hill, Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Tift and 1 more | 91 min |
| Dec 29, 8:20 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Lowndes | 25 min |
| Dec 29, 1:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale | 89 min |
| Dec 29, 2:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Henry | 74 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.