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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 3, 2025Bay County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2025, 8:48 AM CDT for Bay County, Florida. It was in force for 27 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: Aug 3, 2025, 8:48 AM CDT (13:48 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2025, 9:15 AM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Bay County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 365 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: 92 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 3, 5:40 AM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 5:40 AM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 3, 8:48 AM CDT, 0 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
Aug 3, 8:27 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		48 min
Aug 3, 9:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	31 min
Aug 3, 10:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	33 min
Aug 3, 11:22 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Liberty, Wakulla	113 min
Aug 3, 12:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	36 min
Aug 3, 12:43 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		92 min
Aug 3, 1:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	52 min
Aug 3, 1:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Madison	59 min
Aug 2, 7:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Thomas	2 hr
Aug 2, 10:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Decatur, Seminole	110 min
Aug 3, 12:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Early	2 hr
Aug 3, 1:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Worth	2 hr
Aug 3, 1:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth	2 hr
Aug 3, 2:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lanier	29 min
Aug 3, 2:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Turner, Worth	117 min
Aug 3, 2:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Lee, Randolph, Terrell	118 min
Aug 3, 4:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Early	21 min
Aug 3, 5:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Early	3 hr
Aug 3, 5:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Early	3 hr
Aug 3, 1:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Coffee	118 min
Aug 3, 2:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Henry	112 min
Aug 3, 3:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dale	66 min
Aug 3, 4:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dale, Henry, Houston	2 hr

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.