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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 16, 2025Jefferson County, Madison County, Taylor County, Florida; Brooks County, Lowndes County, Thomas County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2025, 7:53 AM EDT for Jefferson County, Madison County, Taylor County, Florida; Brooks County, Lowndes County, Thomas County, Georgia. 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 16, 2025, 7:53 AM EDT (11:53 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 2025, 8:45 AM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Jefferson County, FL, Madison County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Brooks County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Thomas County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 69 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
Mar 16, 2:18 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 89 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -264 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1135 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 275 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 357 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 16, 7:44 AM EDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 7:44 AM EDT, 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 16, 3:24 AM EDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
324 AM EDT Sun Mar 16 2025

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

0311 AM     Marine Tstm Wind 1 E Saint Andrews State 30.13N 85.72W
03/16/2025  M39 MPH          GMZ750             FL   Mesonet

            Mesonet station XSTA St. Andrew Bay.

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Local storm report, Mar 16, 7:09 AM EDT, 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 16, 7:16 AM EDT, 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 16, 7:22 AM EDT, 31 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 16, 2:14 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Mar 16, 2:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Walton, Washington	53 min
Mar 16, 2:59 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Mar 16, 3:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Jackson, Washington	81 min
Mar 16, 4:07 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		83 min
Mar 16, 4:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson	49 min
Mar 16, 4:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Liberty	48 min
Mar 16, 5:28 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		92 min
Mar 16, 6:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Liberty	55 min
Mar 16, 6:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Gulf, Liberty, Wakulla	47 min
Mar 16, 6:53 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		112 min
Mar 16, 7:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon	51 min
Mar 16, 7:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Taylor and 1 more	46 min
Mar 16, 8:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	33 min
Mar 16, 8:45 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Mar 16, 9:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor	47 min
Mar 16, 11:18 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		57 min
Mar 16, 11:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	39 min
Mar 16, 11:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	28 min
Mar 16, 2:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Quitman, Randolph	81 min
Mar 16, 5:04 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Baker, Dougherty, Miller, Mitchell	26 min
Mar 16, 5:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Decatur, Grady, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole	64 min
Mar 16, 5:48 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth	42 min
Mar 16, 6:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Colquitt, Decatur, Grady, Miller, Mitchell and 3 more	62 min
Mar 16, 6:15 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Mitchell, Worth	45 min
Mar 16, 7:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Tift and 2 more	59 min
Mar 16, 8:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes	44 min
Mar 16, 1:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	44 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.