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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 7, 2026Houston County, Alabama

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Jul 7, 2026, 2:08 PM CDT for Houston County, Alabama. 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 7, 2026, 2:08 PM CDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2026, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Houston County, AL

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 261 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: 916 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 919 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

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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 7, 5:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	34 min
Jul 7, 6:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	35 min
Jul 7, 6:26 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		64 min
Jul 7, 7:25 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		65 min
Jul 7, 12:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	33 min
Jul 7, 12:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	36 min
Jul 7, 1:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	45 min
Jul 7, 1:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	29 min
Jul 7, 1:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Wakulla	40 min
Jul 7, 1:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	32 min
Jul 7, 1:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Leon	59 min
Jul 7, 1:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	36 min
Jul 7, 1:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson, Leon	32 min
Jul 7, 2:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	41 min
Jul 7, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Walton	55 min
Jul 7, 2:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	29 min
Jul 7, 3:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	39 min
Jul 7, 3:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	36 min
Jul 7, 3:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes, Washington	32 min
Jul 7, 4:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	30 min
Jul 7, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	34 min
Jul 7, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	34 min
Jul 7, 12:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Thomas	37 min
Jul 7, 1:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	27 min
Jul 7, 1:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Cook, Lowndes	32 min
Jul 7, 1:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lowndes	38 min
Jul 7, 2:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dougherty	38 min
Jul 7, 2:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Early	31 min
Jul 7, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Early	50 min
Jul 7, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Mitchell, Worth	35 min
Jul 7, 3:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Miller	29 min
Jul 7, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Decatur, Early, Miller, Seminole	64 min
Jul 7, 3:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Turner	26 min
Jul 7, 3:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Mitchell	37 min
Jul 7, 3:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Terrell	102 min
Jul 7, 4:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Baker, Mitchell	86 min
Jul 7, 4:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	34 min
Jul 7, 5:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lowndes	34 min
Jul 7, 1:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Henry	36 min
Jul 7, 1:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva	33 min
Jul 7, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Geneva, Houston	38 min

Nearby

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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.