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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 259, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 30, 2026Bay County, Walton County, Washington County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 2026, 2:08 PM CDT for Bay County, Walton County, Washington County, Florida. It was in force for 52 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 30, 2026, 2:08 PM CDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 2026, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Bay County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 313 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: 1095 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 919 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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 30, 12:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 12:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 30, 1:23 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 30, 2:05 PM CDT, 3 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 29, 7:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	55 min
Jul 29, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Liberty	67 min
Jul 29, 7:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Calhoun, Jackson	2 hr
Jul 29, 8:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Jackson	33 min
Jul 29, 9:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	28 min
Jul 29, 9:27 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		93 min
Jul 29, 9:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	31 min
Jul 29, 9:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	28 min
Jul 29, 9:53 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		62 min
Jul 29, 9:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	34 min
Jul 29, 10:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes, Washington	36 min
Jul 29, 10:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	66 min
Jul 29, 10:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	33 min
Jul 29, 11:03 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 10 more	19 hr
Jul 29, 11:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	103 min
Jul 29, 11:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	27 min
Jul 29, 11:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	32 min
Jul 30, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		90 min
Jul 30, 12:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	32 min
Jul 30, 1:10 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	2 hr
Jul 30, 1:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	32 min
Jul 30, 1:31 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		71 min
Jul 30, 1:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	3 hr
Jul 30, 2:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	30 min
Jul 30, 2:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	28 min
Jul 30, 2:23 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		97 min
Jul 30, 2:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	32 min
Jul 30, 3:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	30 min
Jul 30, 3:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	27 min
Jul 30, 3:49 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		86 min
Jul 30, 4:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	32 min
Jul 30, 4:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	34 min
Jul 30, 4:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	37 min
Jul 30, 5:10 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		95 min
Jul 30, 5:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	34 min
Jul 30, 5:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	30 min
Jul 30, 5:32 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		88 min
Jul 30, 5:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	32 min
Jul 30, 6:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	48 min
Jul 30, 6:40 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Jul 30, 8:38 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		96 min
Jul 30, 12:32 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		88 min
Jul 30, 1:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	52 min
Jul 30, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Walton	41 min
Jul 30, 1:57 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		39 min
Jul 30, 2:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	55 min
Jul 30, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun	35 min
Jul 30, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Washington	44 min
Jul 30, 3:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	38 min
Jul 30, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden	56 min
Jul 30, 4:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden, Jackson, Leon	48 min
Jul 30, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	52 min
Jul 30, 5:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	54 min
Jul 30, 5:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	101 min
Jul 30, 5:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Jackson	116 min
Jul 30, 5:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	50 min
Jul 30, 5:50 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		85 min
Jul 30, 5:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson, Taylor	48 min
Jul 30, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Taylor, Wakulla	38 min
Jul 30, 6:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lafayette, Madison, Taylor	40 min
Jul 30, 3:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Miller	41 min
Jul 30, 4:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Decatur, Grady, Seminole	41 min
Jul 30, 5:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Seminole	46 min
Jul 29, 11:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva	35 min
Jul 30, 12:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva	37 min
Jul 30, 5:12 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dale, Henry, Houston	3 hr
Jul 30, 6:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva	48 min
Jul 30, 6:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Houston	116 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.