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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Tallahassee, FL

April 27, 2025Houston County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 2025, 6:48 PM CDT for Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 57 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
Apr 27, 2025, 6:48 PM CDT (23:48 UTC)
Expired
Apr 27, 2025, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Houston County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 265 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2025-04-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2025-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-106 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
931 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 27, 4:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEBen Hill, Irwin23 min
Apr 27, 4:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTAECalhoun20 min
Apr 27, 5:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTAELee35 min
Apr 27, 6:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTAELee24 min
Apr 27, 6:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTAELee35 min
Apr 27, 5:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEDale25 min
Apr 27, 6:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEHouston42 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.