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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 13, 20264 counties in Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2026, 6:41 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 45 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: Aug 13, 2026, 6:41 PM EDT (22:41 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 2026, 7:26 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Clay County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Terrell County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 2543 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 795 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 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 Aug 13, 5:43 PM EDT, 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 5:43 PM EDT, 58 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 13, 5:42 PM EDT, 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 5:47 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 6:03 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 6:06 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 6:26 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 6:27 PM EDT, 14 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 12, 8:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	45 min
Aug 12, 8:33 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		117 min
Aug 12, 9:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	47 min
Aug 12, 9:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	92 min
Aug 12, 10:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	54 min
Aug 13, 2:27 AM EDT	Extreme Heat Watch	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson and 3 more	11 hr
Aug 13, 11:13 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Gulf	12 hr
Aug 13, 1:23 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	TAE	Dixie, Holmes, Jackson, Lafayette, Madison, Taylor and 2 more	31 hr
Aug 13, 1:23 PM EDT	Extreme Heat Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson and 3 more	31 hr
Aug 13, 1:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Franklin	24 min
Aug 13, 1:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		65 min
Aug 13, 2:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	52 min
Aug 13, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	35 min
Aug 13, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	31 min
Aug 13, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	30 min
Aug 13, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	28 min
Aug 13, 4:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Taylor	39 min
Aug 13, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	34 min
Aug 13, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lafayette	50 min
Aug 13, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Worth	33 min
Aug 13, 2:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt	49 min
Aug 13, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Early	30 min
Aug 13, 2:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Worth	37 min
Aug 13, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dougherty	31 min
Aug 13, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Cook	31 min
Aug 13, 3:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dougherty, Mitchell	39 min
Aug 13, 3:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Miller	38 min
Aug 13, 3:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	34 min
Aug 13, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Tift	41 min
Aug 13, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker, Mitchell	46 min
Aug 13, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Irwin, Tift	81 min
Aug 13, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin	66 min
Aug 13, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker	31 min
Aug 13, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Grady	43 min
Aug 13, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee	33 min
Aug 13, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Randolph, Terrell	43 min
Aug 13, 6:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks	42 min
Aug 13, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Quitman	24 min
Aug 13, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell	49 min
Aug 13, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Thomas	33 min
Aug 13, 6:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Thomas	31 min
Aug 12, 8:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva	45 min
Aug 12, 8:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva, Houston	62 min
Aug 13, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Henry	48 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.