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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 346, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2026, 12:59 PM EDT for Franklin County, Gulf County, Liberty County, Florida. It was in force for 46 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 22, 2026, 12:59 PM EDT (16:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2026, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Liberty County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 357 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1811 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 21, 7:24 PM EDT, 17 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 7:24 PM EDT, 17 hours 35 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 8:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gadsden | 30 min |
| Aug 22, 1:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 60 min | |
| Aug 22, 1:26 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 94 min | |
| Aug 22, 1:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Liberty | 30 min |
| Aug 22, 2:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Liberty | 33 min |
| Aug 22, 2:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 48 min |
| Aug 22, 2:46 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 44 min | |
| Aug 22, 3:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gadsden | 50 min |
| Aug 22, 3:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 85 min | |
| Aug 22, 4:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Dixie | 26 min |
| Aug 22, 4:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Lafayette | 34 min |
| Aug 22, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Madison | 36 min |
| Aug 22, 4:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Jefferson, Leon | 114 min |
| Aug 22, 5:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun | 32 min |
| Aug 22, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson | 26 min |
| Aug 22, 5:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Liberty | 37 min |
| Aug 22, 5:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Dixie | 37 min |
| Aug 22, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Liberty | 33 min |
| Aug 22, 6:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Franklin | 34 min |
| Aug 22, 7:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jackson | 23 min |
| Aug 22, 1:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Colquitt | 33 min |
| Aug 22, 2:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Colquitt | 36 min |
| Aug 22, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Colquitt, Thomas | 39 min |
| Aug 22, 3:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Cook | 43 min |
| Aug 22, 4:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 23 min |
| Aug 22, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Thomas | 31 min |
| Aug 22, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Grady | 30 min |
| Aug 22, 4:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Thomas | 33 min |
| Aug 22, 6:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Turner | 29 min |
| Aug 22, 6:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Dougherty | 27 min |
| Aug 22, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Turner | 48 min |
| Aug 22, 7:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Dougherty | 34 min |
| Aug 22, 7:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Ben Hill | 26 min |
| Aug 22, 7:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Irwin, Turner, Worth | 34 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.