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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 3, 2024Dale County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2024, 2:13 AM CDT for Dale County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 3, 2024, 2:13 AM CDT (07:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2024, 2:45 AM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Dale County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:16 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 nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 209 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: 2379 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1221 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 2, 6:27 PM CDT, 7 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 6:27 PM CDT, 7 hours 46 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 3, 2:10 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		34 min
Aug 3, 3:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	45 min
Aug 3, 3:17 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		58 min
Aug 3, 4:02 AM CDT	Hurricane Watch	TAE	Dixie, Franklin, Jefferson, Taylor, Wakulla	36 hr
Aug 3, 4:02 AM CDT	Storm Surge Watch	TAE	Dixie, Franklin, Jefferson, Taylor, Wakulla	12 hr
Aug 3, 4:02 AM CDT	Tropical Storm Watch	TAE	Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson, Lafayette and 4 more	51 hr
Aug 3, 4:07 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		53 min
Aug 3, 4:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	38 min
Aug 3, 5:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	51 min
Aug 3, 5:42 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		63 min
Aug 3, 5:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Holmes	118 min
Aug 3, 6:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	41 min
Aug 3, 6:45 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		60 min
Aug 3, 7:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Walton	117 min
Aug 3, 9:25 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		95 min
Aug 3, 10:20 AM CDT	Storm Surge Warning	TAE	Dixie, Franklin, Jefferson, Taylor, Wakulla	54 hr
Aug 3, 11:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	41 min
Aug 3, 1:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	49 min
Aug 3, 1:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	48 min
Aug 3, 2:31 PM CDT	Flood Watch	TAE	Dixie, Franklin, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon, Madison and 2 more	64 hr
Aug 3, 3:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	53 min
Aug 3, 3:24 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		66 min
Aug 3, 4:03 PM CDT	Hurricane Warning	TAE	Dixie, Franklin, Jefferson, Lafayette, Madison, Taylor and 1 more	42 hr
Aug 3, 4:03 PM CDT	Tropical Storm Warning	TAE	Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson, Lafayette and 4 more	54 hr
Aug 3, 5:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	36 min
Aug 3, 12:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Mitchell	48 min
Aug 3, 3:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay	63 min
Aug 3, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Mitchell	44 min
Aug 3, 6:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill	26 min
Aug 3, 6:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Lee, Terrell	2 hr
Aug 3, 6:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lanier, Lowndes	27 min
Aug 3, 6:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee, Randolph, Terrell	44 min
Aug 3, 1:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	47 min
Aug 3, 2:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	48 min
Aug 3, 3:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	45 min
Aug 3, 3:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dale	100 min
Aug 3, 4:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Houston	43 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.