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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 24, 20265 counties in Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2026, 3:24 PM EDT for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 66 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: May 24, 2026, 3:24 PM EDT (19:24 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2026, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Baker County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Grady County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 253 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: 259 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 549 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 May 24, 2:24 PM EDT, 1 hour earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 2:24 PM EDT, 1 hour before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 24, 11:37 AM EDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 24, 12:32 PM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 24, 3:11 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 24, 3:17 PM EDT, 7 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
May 23, 10:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	112 min
May 24, 3:34 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Walton	21 hr
May 24, 7:57 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		93 min
May 24, 8:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	46 min
May 24, 11:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lafayette	38 min
May 24, 12:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lafayette	43 min
May 24, 3:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Gadsden, Liberty	49 min
May 24, 3:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Liberty	3 hr
May 24, 6:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Liberty	3 hr
May 23, 8:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill	25 min
May 23, 8:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Grady	115 min
May 23, 9:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin	4 hr
May 24, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Cook	37 min
May 24, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Tift	62 min
May 24, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker	44 min
May 24, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Terrell	52 min
May 24, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay, Randolph	32 min
May 24, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Dougherty, Lee, Quitman, Randolph and 1 more	56 min
May 24, 4:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Calhoun, Randolph, Terrell	3 hr
May 24, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin, Tift, Turner	54 min
May 24, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Worth	29 min
May 24, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin, Tift, Turner, Worth	35 min
May 24, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Houston	28 min
May 24, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Henry	29 min
May 24, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	39 min
May 24, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	29 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.