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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 9, 2024Lafayette County, Madison County, Taylor County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2024, 3:35 PM EST for Lafayette County, Madison County, Taylor County, Florida. It was in force for 25 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: Mar 9, 2024, 3:35 PM EST (20:35 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 2024, 4:00 PM EST
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Lafayette County, FL, Madison County, FL, Taylor County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 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
Mar 9, 6:42 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 211 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 730 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 Mar 9, 12:55 PM EST, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 12:55 PM EST, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 9, 12:51 PM EST, 2 hours 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 9, 1:46 PM EST, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 9, 2:13 PM EST, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 9, 2:36 PM EST, 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 9, 2:52 PM EST, 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 9, 3:07 PM EST, 28 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
Mar 8, 7:43 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	TAE		14 hr
Mar 9, 4:57 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	3 hr
Mar 9, 4:59 AM EST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	TAE		14 hr
Mar 9, 5:07 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	38 min
Mar 9, 5:41 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	34 min
Mar 9, 6:14 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson	91 min
Mar 9, 6:53 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Jackson	3 hr
Mar 9, 7:18 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		57 min
Mar 9, 7:20 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	25 min
Mar 9, 7:43 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	47 min
Mar 9, 8:25 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Gadsden	50 min
Mar 9, 9:00 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		90 min
Mar 9, 9:13 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Gadsden	32 min
Mar 9, 9:46 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Leon, Liberty	44 min
Mar 9, 10:27 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay, Gulf, Leon, Liberty	48 min
Mar 9, 10:46 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon	44 min
Mar 9, 11:22 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	38 min
Mar 9, 11:34 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Jackson	63 hr
Mar 9, 12:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Madison	44 min
Mar 9, 12:32 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Franklin, Jefferson, Wakulla	43 min
Mar 9, 1:10 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Jefferson, Madison, Taylor	3 hr
Mar 9, 1:46 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Franklin	44 min
Mar 9, 1:48 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		87 min
Mar 9, 2:52 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	TAE		22 hr
Mar 9, 2:59 PM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Walton	8 hr
Mar 9, 3:07 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Taylor	38 min
Mar 9, 5:06 PM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Liberty	15 days
Mar 9, 1:34 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Clay, Lee, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell	7 hr
Mar 9, 3:21 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Clay	8 min
Mar 9, 4:02 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Early	5 hr
Mar 9, 4:58 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin, Tift, Turner, Worth	5 hr
Mar 9, 5:48 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Baker, Early, Miller, Mitchell	4 hr
Mar 9, 6:35 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin, Turner, Worth	40 min
Mar 9, 7:10 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin	35 min
Mar 9, 7:18 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Lee	5 days
Mar 9, 7:26 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Terrell, Webster	50 hr
Mar 9, 7:32 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Tift	43 min
Mar 9, 7:41 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Mitchell, Tift	49 min
Mar 9, 11:33 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Clay	51 hr
Mar 9, 11:35 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Lee	58 hr
Mar 9, 11:54 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lanier, Lowndes	36 min
Mar 9, 1:27 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Henry	7 hr
Mar 9, 2:14 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee, Dale	31 min
Mar 9, 2:17 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	58 min
Mar 9, 2:38 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Henry	67 min
Mar 9, 2:38 AM EST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Dale, Henry	31 min
Mar 9, 3:08 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	5 hr
Mar 9, 3:37 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Geneva, Henry, Houston	5 hr
Mar 9, 4:27 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva	48 min
Mar 9, 4:28 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	32 min
Mar 9, 4:46 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	11 hr
Mar 9, 5:32 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Houston	43 min
Mar 9, 8:37 AM EST	River Flood Warning	TAE	Dale	59 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.