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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 21, 2025Walton County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 21, 2025, 12:21 PM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 39 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 21, 2025, 12:21 PM CDT (17:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 21, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Walton County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:21 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 342 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: 301 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 945 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 21, 9:18 AM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 9:18 AM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 21, 11:51 AM CDT, 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 21, 12:21 PM 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 21, 10:07 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		83 min
Aug 21, 11:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	24 min
Aug 21, 12:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	24 min
Aug 21, 12:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	36 min
Aug 21, 12:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton, Washington	47 min
Aug 21, 1:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Walton, Washington	118 min
Aug 21, 1:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	39 min
Aug 21, 1:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	47 min
Aug 21, 2:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	34 min
Aug 21, 2:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Jefferson, Leon, Taylor, Wakulla	2 hr
Aug 21, 2:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun	41 min
Aug 21, 2:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Holmes	3 hr
Aug 21, 3:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	40 min
Aug 21, 1:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lanier	43 min
Aug 21, 4:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay	41 min
Aug 21, 4:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks, Thomas	66 min
Aug 21, 4:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Colquitt, Cook	118 min
Aug 21, 4:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker, Early, Miller	46 min
Aug 21, 4:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay	35 min
Aug 21, 4:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Clay, Early	118 min
Aug 21, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Early	50 min
Aug 21, 5:11 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Early, Miller	2 hr
Aug 21, 5:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Randolph	116 min
Aug 21, 5:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker, Calhoun	40 min
Aug 21, 5:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Turner, Worth	41 min
Aug 21, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Colquitt, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas	40 min
Aug 21, 6:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dougherty	50 min
Aug 21, 6:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Tift, Turner, Worth	2 hr
Aug 21, 6:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Colquitt, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas	114 min
Aug 21, 3:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	36 min
Aug 21, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	47 min
Aug 21, 3:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva	35 min
Aug 21, 3:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Houston	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.