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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Tallahassee, FL

February 16, 2025Ben Hill County, Irwin County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 2025, 6:53 AM EST for Ben Hill County, Irwin County, Georgia. It was in force for 86 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: Feb 16, 2025, 6:53 AM EST (11:53 UTC)
Expired: Feb 16, 2025, 8:19 AM EST
In force: 86 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Ben Hill County, GA, Irwin County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:56 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
Feb 16, 3:42 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 221 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 445 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 347 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 305 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Feb 16, 6:26 AM EST, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 6:26 AM EST, 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 16, 6:04 AM EST, 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 16, 6:21 AM EST, 32 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 16, 6:39 AM EST, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 16, 6:40 AM EST, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 16, 6:51 AM EST, 2 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
Feb 15, 9:49 PM EST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	TAE		60 min
Feb 16, 4:41 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	94 min
Feb 16, 5:04 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Walton, Washington	86 min
Feb 16, 5:12 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
Feb 16, 5:41 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson, Washington	94 min
Feb 16, 6:25 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Liberty, Walton, Washington	95 min
Feb 16, 7:07 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Liberty	83 min
Feb 16, 7:38 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Leon	97 min
Feb 16, 7:48 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Gulf, Liberty, Wakulla	87 min
Feb 16, 7:55 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Feb 16, 8:19 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	56 min
Feb 16, 8:51 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Lafayette, Madison, Taylor	84 min
Feb 16, 9:42 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
Feb 16, 9:54 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lafayette, Taylor	51 min
Feb 16, 10:32 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	TAE		22 hr
Feb 16, 11:24 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	36 min
Feb 16, 4:47 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Quitman, Randolph	88 min
Feb 16, 5:26 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Early, Lee, Miller and 1 more	94 min
Feb 16, 6:02 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Seminole	88 min
Feb 16, 6:17 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Mitchell, Tift, Turner, Worth	88 min
Feb 16, 7:02 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Grady, Thomas	88 min
Feb 16, 7:36 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier, Tift	84 min
Feb 16, 7:50 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes	85 min
Feb 16, 4:03 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	87 min
Feb 16, 4:26 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Geneva	77 min
Feb 16, 4:55 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Geneva, Houston	95 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.