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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 6, 2024, 5:23 AM EST for Dixie County, Lafayette County, Taylor County, Florida. It was in force for 63 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 6, 2024, 5:23 AM EST (10:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 6, 2024, 6:26 AM EST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 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 10:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1215 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 317 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 544 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 Jan 6, 4:55 AM EST, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 6, 4:55 AM EST, 28 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 12:48 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 87 min | |
| Jan 6, 3:11 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Franklin, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 2 hr |
| Jan 6, 3:21 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Jefferson, Leon, Wakulla | 54 min |
| Jan 6, 3:24 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 3 hr | |
| Jan 6, 4:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Lafayette, Madison, Taylor, Wakulla | 83 min |
| Jan 6, 2:18 PM EST | Gale Watch | TAE | 38 hr | |
| Jan 6, 2:18 PM EST | Storm Watch | TAE | 38 hr | |
| Jan 6, 2:19 PM EST | High Wind Watch | TAE | Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Wakulla, Walton | 38 hr |
| Jan 6, 2:02 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Dale, Henry | 118 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.