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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 27, 2026Thomas County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Jul 27, 2026, 6:21 PM EDT for Thomas County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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 27, 2026, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2026, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Thomas County, GA

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 301 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: 2833 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 858 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 27, 3:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	39 min
Jul 27, 4:33 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	TAE	Dixie, Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette and 5 more	27 hr
Jul 27, 4:33 PM EDT	Extreme Heat Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Liberty, Walton and 1 more	27 hr
Jul 27, 6:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	57 min
Jul 27, 7:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	47 min
Jul 27, 7:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon	49 min
Jul 27, 1:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien	32 min
Jul 27, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien, Cook, Irwin, Tift	54 min
Jul 27, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Berrien, Irwin, Tift	52 min
Jul 27, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes	48 min
Jul 27, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Berrien, Irwin	62 min
Jul 27, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Early	57 min
Jul 27, 6:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Thomas	41 min
Jul 27, 6:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	62 min
Jul 27, 7:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	43 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.