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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 16, 2025Coffee County, Dale County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2025, 12:27 AM CDT for Coffee County, Dale County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 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 16, 2025, 12:27 AM CDT (05:27 UTC)
Expired
Mar 16, 2025, 1:11 AM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:30 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 15, 7:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 249 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2025-03-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 190 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2025-03-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 242 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
190 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1464 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
242 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
417 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
3.6

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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 15, 7:52 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 7:52 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 15, 9:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
1036 PM EDT Sat Mar 15 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1029 PM     Non-Tstm Wnd Gst Donalsonville           31.04N 84.88W
03/15/2025  M42 MPH          Seminole           GA   Mesonet

            An ambient weather station at Jimmy Drake -
            Donalsonville measured a gust of 42 mph.

&&

IG3

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 16, 1:14 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE2 hr
Mar 16, 1:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBay, Walton, Washington53 min
Mar 16, 1:59 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE2 hr
Mar 16, 2:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBay, Calhoun, Gulf, Jackson, Washington81 min
Mar 16, 3:07 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE83 min
Mar 16, 3:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJackson49 min
Mar 16, 3:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBay, Calhoun, Gulf, Liberty48 min
Mar 16, 4:28 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE92 min
Mar 16, 5:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEGadsden, Leon, Liberty55 min
Mar 16, 5:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEFranklin, Gulf, Liberty, Wakulla47 min
Mar 16, 5:53 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE112 min
Mar 16, 6:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEGadsden, Jefferson, Leon51 min
Mar 16, 6:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEFranklin, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Taylor and 1 more46 min
Mar 16, 6:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJefferson, Madison, Taylor52 min
Mar 16, 7:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJefferson, Madison33 min
Mar 16, 7:45 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE2 hr
Mar 16, 8:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEDixie, Lafayette, Taylor47 min
Mar 16, 10:18 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE57 min
Mar 16, 10:21 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEDixie39 min
Mar 16, 10:32 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEMadison28 min
Mar 16, 1:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEClay, Quitman, Randolph81 min
Mar 16, 4:04 AM CDTTornado WarningTAEBaker, Dougherty, Miller, Mitchell26 min
Mar 16, 4:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBaker, Decatur, Grady, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole64 min
Mar 16, 4:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBaker, Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth42 min
Mar 16, 5:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBaker, Colquitt, Decatur, Grady, Miller, Mitchell and 3 more62 min
Mar 16, 5:15 AM CDTTornado WarningTAEColquitt, Mitchell, Worth45 min
Mar 16, 6:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBen Hill, Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Tift and 2 more59 min
Mar 16, 7:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBerrien, Brooks, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes44 min

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.