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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 21, 2025Gadsden County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at May 21, 2025, 1:08 PM EDT for Gadsden 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 21, 2025, 1:08 PM EDT (17:08 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2025, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 50

County Gadsden County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 279 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: 241 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1173 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted.

264 
WWUS82 KTAE 211708
SPSTAE

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
108 PM EDT Wed May 21 2025
 
FLZ016-017-211800-
Gadsden FL-Leon FL-
108 PM EDT Wed May 21 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHEASTERN GADSDEN AND
SOUTHWESTERN LEON COUNTIES THROUGH 200 PM EDT...

At 108 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Greensboro, or 7 miles southwest of Quincy, moving east at 25 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around 
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is 
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Tallahassee, Midway, Lake Bradford, Lake Talquin, Silver Lake Rec
Area, Wetumpka, Tallahassee Regional A/P, Sawdust, and Fort Braden.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. 

&&

LAT...LON 3038 8461 3041 8468 3042 8468 3042 8471
      3046 8471 3046 8475 3051 8476 3055 8472
      3055 8462 3049 8437 3040 8433 3035 8439
TIME...MOT...LOC 1708Z 286DEG 20KT 3050 8468 

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

$$

21-Dobbs

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 12:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Gadsden	54 min
May 21, 12:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon	42 min
May 21, 1:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun	48 min
May 21, 1:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	49 min
May 21, 2:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	26 min
May 21, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		91 min
May 21, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	24 min
May 21, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		119 min
May 21, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	39 min
May 21, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		97 min
May 21, 7:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee	43 min
May 21, 9:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee, Terrell, Turner	38 min
May 21, 11:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien, Cook	63 min
May 21, 11:54 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Decatur, Grady, Seminole	51 min
May 21, 12:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Cook, Lanier	47 min
May 21, 12:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks, Lanier, Lowndes	53 min
May 21, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	40 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.