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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 31, 20256 counties in Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2025, 3:52 PM EDT for 6 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 68 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 31, 2025, 3:52 PM EDT (19:52 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2025, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Cook County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA

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 31, 11:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Mar 31, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 544 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 658 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 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 31, 3:27 PM EDT, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 3:27 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 31, 3:03 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 31, 3:17 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 31, 3:26 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 31, 3:29 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 31, 3:37 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 31, 3:44 PM EDT, 8 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 30, 8:34 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		86 min
Mar 30, 8:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		65 min
Mar 30, 10:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		31 min
Mar 31, 12:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes, Walton	41 min
Mar 31, 12:35 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		115 min
Mar 31, 12:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	48 min
Mar 31, 12:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington	62 min
Mar 31, 1:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	31 min
Mar 31, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Liberty and 1 more	62 min
Mar 31, 2:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	42 min
Mar 31, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		114 min
Mar 31, 2:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	53 min
Mar 31, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	66 min
Mar 31, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon, Madison, Taylor, Wakulla	53 min
Mar 31, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		89 min
Mar 31, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	54 min
Mar 31, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor	55 min
Mar 31, 1:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Early, Miller, Quitman, Randolph and 1 more	38 min
Mar 31, 1:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Early	28 min
Mar 31, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Early, Lee and 4 more	62 min
Mar 31, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Ben Hill, Calhoun, Dougherty, Irwin, Lee and 5 more	66 min
Mar 31, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Tift	53 min
Mar 31, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien, Lanier, Lowndes	47 min
Mar 31, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Lanier	21 min
Mar 31, 12:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	25 min
Mar 31, 1:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Dale, Henry	30 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.