Thunderstorm winds tore a carport from a home and downed a few trees. Wind-borne debris caused minor damage to several homes.
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Thunderstorm winds tore a carport from a home and downed a few trees. Wind-borne debris caused minor damage to several homes.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Apr 5, 12:25 AM CST, 5 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 225 AM EDT SAT APR 5 2008 .SYNOPSIS...THE LATEST WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS A MID/UPPER TROUGH FROM MI TO TX, WITH SWLY FLOW OVER MUCH OF THE ERN CONUS. SEVERAL PIECES OF SHORT WAVE ENERGY ARE TRANSLATING NEWD FROM THE LOWER MS VALLEY THRU THE SERN AND MID-ATLANTIC STATES. THIS ENERGY IS AIDING IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ACTIVE CONVECTION ALONG A DEVELOPING WARM FRONT, WITH THE ACTUAL COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM THE TX GULF COAST NEWD ACROSS NRN MS, MIDDLE TN TO WRN WV. SHWRS/TSTMS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING IN MOIST/UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT, HOWEVER THE STORMS REMAINED BELOW SEVERE CRITERIA. THEREFORE, ALL TORNADO WATCHES THAT WERE IN EFFECT EARLIER WERE CANCELLED. MARINE-WISE, WILL MONITOR WIND AND SEA TRENDS FOR EXERCISE CAUTION HEADLINES WITH THE MORNING CWF ISSUANCE. && .SHORT TERM...SRN STREAM MID/UPPER TROUGH TO OUR W MOVES E-NE ACROSS THE TN VALLEY AND SERN STATES LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT, WITH W-SW FLOW IN ITS WAKE FOR SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY AS A SERIES OF NRN STREAM SHORT WAVES TRANSLATE E-NE ACROSS THE NRN/CNTRL ROCKIES AND PLAINS INTO THE UPPER MIDWEST. THE SURFACE COLD FRONT TO OUR NW SLOWLY SETTLES SEWD ACROSS THE CWA TODAY AND TONIGHT, THEN HANGS UP OVER THE NRN GULF AND FL PENINSULA SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY AS WEAK SURFACE WAVES RIDE ALONG IT. THE 05/00Z GFS AND 04/12Z EURO ARE TRENDING DRIER BEHIND THE FRONT WITH POPS CONFINED TO OUR MARINE ZONES AND SE BIG BEND, WHILE THE 05/00Z NAM SHOWS MOISTURE OVERRUNNING THE BOUNDARY FURTHER TO THE N. THE GFS QPF LOOKS QUESTIONABLE AS IT DEVELOPS AN MCS OVER THE NRN GULF THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT, WHICH ROBS THE MOISTURE AND LIFT OVER OUR AREA. THE NAM SHOWS A MORE REALISTIC QPF SOLUTION WITH A LINEAR CONVECTIVE MODE. IN THIS CASE, WILL PLACE MORE WEIGHT ON THE NAM POPS. FOR TODAY, FAVORABLE Q-G FORCING WILL COMBINE WITH INCREASING DEEP LAYER MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY TO PRODUCE NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. WITH MODEL PRECIP WATER VALUES RANGING FROM 1.5-2.0 INCHES, THERE WILL THE THREAT FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. WITH STORM MOTION PARALLELING THE MEAN SWLY FLOW, ECHO TRAINING WILL ADD TO THE HEAVY RAIN THREAT. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS OUR ENTIRE CWA IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER. A MODERATELY UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT (SURFACE CAPES 1000-2000 J/KG) COMBINED WITH 0-6 KM SHEAR VALUES OF 30-40 KT SUGGEST THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL. TONIGHT, WILL DEPICT AN W-E POP GRADIENT WITH SHWRS/TSTMS GRADUALLY TAPERING OFF AS THE FRONT EASES THRU THE AREA. SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT, POPS RANGE FROM SILENT 10S NW TO 40-50 SE, AND WILL TRIM THESE NUMBERS SLIGHTLY FOR MONDAY OVER THE E/SE PORTIONS OF THE AREA. WITH REGARDS TO TEMPS, STUCK WITH A BLEND OF THE MODEL GUIDANCE. && .LONG TERM...BOTH THE 00 UTC SAT GFS AND 12 UTC FRI ECMWF HAVE TRENDED DRIER FOR AT LEAST THE BEGINNING OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD...AS A DEVELOPING UPPER LEVEL RIDGE AND ANOTHER STRONG SFC WEDGE EXTENDING FROM NEW ENGLAND DOWN THE APPALACHIANS SHOULD COMBINE TO KEEP THE DEEP LAYER SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE OFF TO OUR SOUTH THROUGH WEDNESDAY. COULD SEE SLIGHT CHANCE TO LOW CHANCE POPS RETURN BY THE END OF THE WEEK...BUT THE NEXT SHORTWAVE MAY HAVE QUITE A BIT OF TROUBLE PENETRATING EASTWARD AGAINST THE STRENGTHENING UPPER RIDGE...SO ANY COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE MAY HOLD OFF UNTIL THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. WITH THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE IN PLACE...EXPECT ABOVE CLIMO TEMPS TO PERSIST...WITH HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S TO LOWER 80S...AND LOWS RANGING FROM THE UPPER 50S TO THE MID 60S. && .AVIATION...VERY COMPLEX TAF PACKAGE DURING THE NEXT 24 HRS...AS WE WILL LIKELY HAVE TO DEAL WITH SEVERAL BANDS OF CONVECTION OUT AHEAD OF A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WHICH WILL GRADUALLY PUSH SOUTHEASTWARD THROUGH THE REGION TODAY AND TONIGHT. ALSO...STILL MONITORING A SIZABLE AREA OF SEA FOG AND STRATUS WHICH HAS BEEN IMPACTING KPFN ESPECIALLY HARD DURING THE EVENING HOURS. ALTHOUGH THERE MAY BE SOME BRIEF BREAKS IN THE POOR FLYING CONDITIONS...EXPECT MVFR-IFR CONDITIONS TO GENERALLY PREVAIL AT ALL OF THE TAF SITES...WITH PERIODS OF IFR-LIFR CONDITIONS WITH GUSTY SFC WINDS IN THE CONVECTION. BY THE END OF THE PERIOD...IN THE 00-06 UTC SUN TIME FRAME...ANTICIPATE SOME IMPROVEMENT TO TAKE PLACE...ESPECIALLY OVER THE TAF SITES TO THE N AND W (KDHN AND KPFN) IN PARTICULAR. && .MARINE...A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE MARINE AREA FROM THE WEST TODAY...WITH INCREASING WINDS...SEAS AND SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE FRONT WILL STALL SOUTH OF THE WATERS ON SUNDAY. THEN HIGH PRESSURE TO THE NORTHEAST WILL RIDGE ACROSS THE WATERS MAINTAINING A MODERATE EASTERLY WIND REGIME THROUGH MID WEEK. && .FIRE WEATHER...AMPLE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL PRECLUDE RED FLAG CONCERNS FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS. && .HYDROLOGY...THE MAIN CONCERN WITH THE APPROACHING FRONT WILL BE THE POTENTIAL FOR ECHO TRAINING TODAY. OVERALL, EXPECT ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL, WITH HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. THIS WILL RESULT IN MINOR RISES ON AREA RIVERS AND STREAMS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... TALLAHASSEE 80 61 81 60 80 / 80 50 30 20 20 PANAMA CITY 74 61 78 64 80 / 80 30 30 20 10 DOTHAN 74 55 78 60 81 / 80 20 20 10 10 ALBANY 78 56 79 60 80 / 80 40 20 10 20 VALDOSTA 82 62 81 59 79 / 80 50 30 20 20 CROSS CITY 79 65 77 62 81 / 70 60 40 40 30 && .TAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. GA...NONE. FL...NONE. GM...NONE. && AVIATION/FIRE WEATHER/LONG TERM...GOULD PUBLIC/MARINE...JAMSKI
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 550 AM EDT SAT APR 5 2008 ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161- GMZ730-750-755-765-770-775-061000- COFFEE-DALE-HENRY-GENEVA-HOUSTON-INLAND WALTON-COASTAL WALTON- HOLMES-WASHINGTON-JACKSON-BAY-CALHOUN-GULF-FRANKLIN-GADSDEN-LEON- JEFFERSON-MADISON-LIBERTY-WAKULLA-TAYLOR-LAFAYETTE-DIXIE-QUITMAN- CLAY-RANDOLPH-TERRELL-DOUGHERTY-LEE-WORTH-TURNER-TIFT-BEN HILL- IRWIN-EARLY-MILLER-BAKER-MITCHELL-COLQUITT-COOK-BERRIEN-SEMINOLE- DECATUR-GRADY-THOMAS-BROOKS-LOWNDES-LANIER- APALACHEE BAY OR COASTAL WATERS FROM KEATON BEACH TO OCHLOCKONEE RIVER FL OUT TO 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM APALACHICOLA TO DESTIN FL OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM OCHLOCKONEE RIVER TO APALACHICOLA FL OUT TO 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM SUWANNEE RIVER TO KEATON BEACH OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM APALACHICOLA TO DESTIN FL FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM SUWANNEE RIVER TO APALACHICOLA FL FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 550 AM EDT SAT APR 5 2008 /450 AM CDT SAT APR 5 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...AND THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND PANHANDLE...AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE ENTIRE TRI-STATE REGION TODAY... A DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST TODAY AND TONIGHT. SEVERAL BANDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND MOVE THROUGH THE REGION TODAY. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME OF THE STORMS TO BE STRONG TO SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND HAIL. DUE TO THE VERY MOIST ATMOSPHERE AND STORMS REDEVELOPING AND MOVING OVER THE SAME AREAS...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OF ONE TO TWO INCHES WITH ISOLATED THREE TO FOUR INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE. THE COLD FRONT WILL STALL OVER THE COASTAL WATERS LATER TONIGHT...WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TAPERING OFF FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST. DUE TO THE GUSTY ONSHORE WINDS AND SWELLS TODAY...THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS FOR THE AREA BEACHES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... A SERIES OF WEAK LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS WILL DEVELOP AND MOVE ALONG THE STALLED FRONT SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...WITH THE BEST CHANCES FOR RAIN OVER THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND COASTAL WATERS. A RIDGE OF STRONG HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE SOUTHEAST ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY WITH DRIER CONDITIONS. AS THE RIDGE MOVES INTO THE ATLANTIC LATE IN THE WEEK...ONSHORE WINDS WILL TRANSPORT GULF MOISTURE INTO THE REGION...WITH AT LEAST SLIGHT CHANCES FOR RAIN AT THAT TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WEATHER.GOV...THEN CLICK ON YOUR AREA OF INTEREST ON THE NATIONAL MAP. JAMSKI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 230 AM EDT SAT APR 5 2008 ALZ065-050730- COFFEE- 130 AM CDT SAT APR 5 2008 ...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS IN EFFECT FOR COFFEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 230 AM CDT AT 127 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BULLOCK...OR 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELBA... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. POSSIBLE PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS UP TO 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS...AND IS ALSO PRODUCING FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. RELAY REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE AT (8 5 0) 9 4 2 8 8 3 3. OR...YOU MAY CONTACT THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 17-GOULD
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A carport was torn loose from a home. Wind-borne debris caused minor damage to several homes. There were a few trees blown down.
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