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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 9, 20244 counties in Georgia; Henry County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2024, 11:59 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia; Henry County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 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: May 9, 2024, 11:59 PM EDT (03:59 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2024, 12:45 AM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Henry County, AL, Clay County, GA, Early County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 9, 11:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 189 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -343 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 925 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 267 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 399 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 9.8

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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 May 9, 11:38 PM EDT, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 11:38 PM EDT, 21 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
May 10, 5:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington	88 min
May 10, 5:06 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		114 min
May 10, 5:25 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Walton, Washington	35 min
May 10, 5:41 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay, Walton, Washington	34 min
May 10, 6:13 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Gadsden	47 min
May 10, 6:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson and 6 more	84 min
May 10, 6:30 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Liberty	30 min
May 10, 6:39 AM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	51 min
May 10, 6:44 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	31 min
May 10, 6:45 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
May 10, 6:49 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Franklin, Gulf	26 min
May 10, 6:50 AM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TAE	Leon, Wakulla	40 min
May 10, 7:16 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Lafayette, Madison, Taylor	59 min
May 10, 7:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor	90 min
May 10, 7:41 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Lafayette, Taylor	28 min
May 10, 8:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	51 min
May 10, 9:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	32 min
May 10, 10:04 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
May 10, 11:11 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	49 min
May 10, 11:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Wakulla	19 min
May 10, 12:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	14 min
May 10, 12:57 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
May 10, 2:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
May 10, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Liberty	29 min
May 10, 12:47 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lee, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell	43 min
May 10, 4:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Early, Miller, Quitman, Randolph and 1 more	59 min
May 10, 4:56 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Early, Seminole	34 min
May 10, 5:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Colquitt, Decatur, Grady, Miller, Mitchell and 2 more	68 min
May 10, 6:04 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas	37 min
May 10, 6:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes and 3 more	93 min
May 10, 7:22 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes and 1 more	53 min
May 10, 3:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	45 min
May 10, 3:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	63 min
May 10, 4:40 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Henry, Houston	3 hr
May 10, 4:58 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Henry, Houston	3 hr

Nearby

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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.