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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 13, 2025Walton County, Washington County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 2025, 1:53 PM CDT for Walton County, Washington County, Florida. It was in force for 52 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 13, 2025, 1:53 PM CDT (18:53 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 2025, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 334 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 814 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 2 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 Mar 13, 1:15 PM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 1:15 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 13, 1:16 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 13, 1:24 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 13, 1:26 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 13, 1:28 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 13, 1:31 PM CDT, 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 13, 1:32 PM CDT, 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
Mar 13, 12:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	45 min
Mar 13, 1:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	44 min
Mar 13, 2:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	41 min
Mar 13, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	50 min
Mar 13, 3:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	40 min
Mar 13, 4:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	23 min
Mar 13, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	46 min
Mar 13, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes	54 min
Mar 13, 12:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay	36 min
Mar 13, 1:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Randolph	23 min
Mar 13, 1:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun	34 min
Mar 13, 2:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dougherty	38 min
Mar 13, 2:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Decatur	44 min
Mar 13, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Mitchell	40 min
Mar 13, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Dougherty, Mitchell	40 min
Mar 13, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Mitchell, Worth	39 min
Mar 13, 3:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee, Terrell	39 min
Mar 13, 4:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Grady	30 min
Mar 13, 4:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt, Cook	43 min
Mar 13, 5:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt, Cook	27 min
Mar 13, 12:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Geneva, Houston	42 min
Mar 13, 12:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Geneva	34 min
Mar 13, 1:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Houston	51 min
Mar 13, 2:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Henry	24 min
Mar 13, 4:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	25 min
Mar 13, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dale, Geneva, Houston	60 min
Mar 13, 4:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva	28 min
Mar 13, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Geneva	70 min
Mar 13, 5:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Houston	65 min
Mar 13, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Houston	51 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.