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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 20, 2026Lafayette County, Taylor County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2026, 3:49 PM EDT for Lafayette County, Taylor County, Florida. It was in force for 41 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: Jun 20, 2026, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2026, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Lafayette County, FL, Taylor County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 273 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: 2215 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 743 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 26 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 Jun 20, 3:30 PM EDT, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 3:30 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 20, 2:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 20, 3:00 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 20, 3:41 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 20, 3:41 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 20, 3:42 PM EDT, 7 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
Jun 20, 1:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Wakulla	56 min
Jun 20, 1:51 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		54 min
Jun 20, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Wakulla	50 min
Jun 20, 2:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson, Leon	31 min
Jun 20, 2:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon, Madison, Taylor, Wakulla	51 min
Jun 20, 2:52 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		98 min
Jun 20, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon	33 min
Jun 20, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	51 min
Jun 20, 3:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	49 min
Jun 20, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun	48 min
Jun 20, 5:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	40 min
Jun 20, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	29 min
Jun 20, 5:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	23 min
Jun 20, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	45 min
Jun 20, 6:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	2 hr
Jun 20, 6:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes, Washington	23 min
Jun 20, 7:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Holmes, Jackson	2 hr
Jun 20, 7:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	38 min
Jun 20, 3:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin	2 hr
Jun 20, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	30 min
Jun 20, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Irwin	57 min
Jun 20, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay, Early	48 min
Jun 20, 5:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Berrien, Irwin, Tift	115 min
Jun 20, 6:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin, Turner	112 min
Jun 20, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker	35 min
Jun 20, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Early, Miller	18 min
Jun 20, 6:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Tift, Worth	24 min
Jun 20, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Decatur, Dougherty, Grady, Mitchell, Turner, Worth	28 min
Jun 20, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt, Grady, Thomas, Tift, Worth	33 min
Jun 20, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Houston	31 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.