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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 327, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 20, 2026Dougherty County, Lee County, Terrell County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 2026, 8:23 PM EDT for Dougherty County, Lee County, Terrell County, Georgia. 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: Aug 20, 2026, 8:23 PM EDT (00:23 UTC)
Expired: Aug 20, 2026, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Dougherty County, GA, Lee County, GA, Terrell County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 3363 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 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 20, 7:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 7:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 20, 7:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 20, 7:24 PM EDT, 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 20, 7:41 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 20, 7:59 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 20, 8:00 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 20, 8:06 PM EDT, 17 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 20, 8:07 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		113 min
Aug 20, 8:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Taylor	27 min
Aug 20, 8:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	23 min
Aug 20, 8:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	47 min
Aug 20, 9:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	32 min
Aug 20, 11:02 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		37 min
Aug 21, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	26 min
Aug 21, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Walton	55 min
Aug 21, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton	47 min
Aug 21, 6:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	24 min
Aug 21, 6:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden, Jackson	34 min
Aug 21, 6:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	32 min
Aug 21, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson	60 min
Aug 21, 7:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	36 min
Aug 20, 8:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Terrell	30 min
Aug 20, 8:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dougherty	39 min
Aug 20, 8:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Terrell	24 min
Aug 20, 9:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee, Terrell	51 min
Aug 21, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Worth	29 min
Aug 21, 2:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Quitman	23 min
Aug 21, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lee, Worth	42 min
Aug 21, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Early, Quitman, Randolph	33 min
Aug 21, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Worth	32 min
Aug 21, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Quitman, Randolph	45 min
Aug 21, 3:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Lee, Worth	52 min
Aug 21, 3:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Tift	34 min
Aug 21, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Randolph, Terrell	47 min
Aug 21, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Tift, Worth	45 min
Aug 21, 3:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Lee, Worth	2 hr
Aug 21, 3:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay, Quitman	37 min
Aug 21, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lee, Worth	52 min
Aug 21, 4:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Early, Quitman, Randolph and 1 more	51 min
Aug 21, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Dougherty, Terrell	44 min
Aug 21, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Tift	29 min
Aug 21, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Colquitt, Mitchell, Worth	49 min
Aug 21, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee	33 min
Aug 21, 4:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Early, Quitman, Randolph and 1 more	34 min
Aug 21, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Cook	35 min
Aug 21, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien	30 min
Aug 21, 5:18 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dougherty, Lee	117 min
Aug 21, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker, Colquitt, Early, Grady, Miller, Mitchell and 2 more	33 min
Aug 21, 5:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker, Early, Miller	33 min
Aug 21, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Early	43 min
Aug 21, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Cook	33 min
Aug 21, 6:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks, Lowndes, Thomas	24 min
Aug 21, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Henry	13 min
Aug 21, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	32 min
Aug 21, 5:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee, Dale	51 min
Aug 21, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	24 min
Aug 21, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Henry	42 min
Aug 21, 6:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dale, Houston	48 min
Aug 21, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva	31 min
Aug 21, 6:27 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dale, Henry, Houston	63 min
Aug 21, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Houston	44 min
Aug 21, 6:36 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Dale, Henry, Houston	3 hr
Aug 21, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Henry	33 min
Aug 21, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Geneva, Houston	46 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.