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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 17, 2026Dixie County, Lafayette County, Taylor County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2026, 6:23 PM EDT for Dixie County, Lafayette County, Taylor County, Florida. It was in force for 37 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: Jul 17, 2026, 6:23 PM EDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2026, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Dixie County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Taylor County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 256 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: 1697 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1078 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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 Jul 17, 3:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 3:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 17, 5:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 5:52 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 6:19 PM EDT, 4 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
Jul 17, 3:45 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Gulf	24 hr
Jul 17, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
Jul 17, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	48 min
Jul 17, 5:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor	38 min
Jul 17, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor	30 min
Jul 17, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lafayette, Taylor	34 min
Jul 17, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lafayette, Taylor	37 min
Jul 17, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Jul 17, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lafayette, Madison, Taylor	55 min
Jul 17, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Taylor	46 min
Jul 17, 7:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	41 min
Jul 17, 7:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon, Madison, Taylor, Wakulla	65 min
Jul 17, 7:52 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Jul 16, 8:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Worth	33 min
Jul 17, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Decatur, Early, Miller	41 min
Jul 17, 7:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Decatur, Early, Miller, Quitman and 2 more	41 min
Jul 17, 7:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes, Thomas	44 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.