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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 245, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 29, 2026Bay County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 2026, 2:45 PM CDT for Bay County, Florida. It was in force for 21 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 29, 2026, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2026, 3:06 PM CDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Bay County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 345 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: 3401 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 931 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -1.3

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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 29, 1:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 1:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 29, 2:31 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 29, 2:33 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 29, 2:35 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 29, 2:36 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 29, 2:37 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 29, 2:39 PM CDT, 6 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 28, 11:31 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	19 hr
Jul 29, 3:24 AM CDT	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Bay, Gulf	68 hr
Jul 29, 12:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	68 min
Jul 29, 1:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	65 min
Jul 29, 2:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	59 min
Jul 29, 2:32 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		58 min
Jul 29, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon, Madison	55 min
Jul 29, 3:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	60 min
Jul 29, 3:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lafayette	52 min
Jul 29, 4:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	62 min
Jul 29, 4:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	55 min
Jul 29, 4:27 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Jul 29, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon, Madison, Taylor, Wakulla	56 min
Jul 29, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	74 min
Jul 29, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	61 min
Jul 29, 5:18 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		57 min
Jul 29, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dixie, Jefferson, Lafayette, Madison, Taylor, Wakulla	65 min
Jul 29, 6:09 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Jul 29, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	46 min
Jul 29, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor	95 min
Jul 29, 12:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Dougherty	41 min
Jul 29, 1:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Colquitt, Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth	65 min
Jul 29, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Colquitt, Dougherty, Mitchell, Worth	56 min
Jul 29, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Decatur, Early and 6 more	81 min
Jul 29, 2:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun	55 min
Jul 29, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Decatur, Grady	58 min
Jul 29, 2:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Tift, Turner	64 min
Jul 29, 3:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien	68 min
Jul 29, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Irwin, Tift, Turner, Worth	78 min
Jul 29, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Lee, Terrell	38 min
Jul 29, 3:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	50 min
Jul 29, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur	46 min
Jul 29, 3:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee	54 min
Jul 29, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lee, Worth	44 min
Jul 29, 3:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Turner	3 hr
Jul 29, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Early, Miller, Seminole	53 min
Jul 29, 5:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Miller	55 min
Jul 29, 5:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Decatur, Seminole	64 min
Jul 29, 5:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale, Henry	55 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.