A cluster of thunderstorms moved through southeast Alabama, producing some wind damage around Enterprise.
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A cluster of thunderstorms moved through southeast Alabama, producing some wind damage around Enterprise.
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 Aug 12, 2:56 PM CST, 18 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 456 PM EDT Mon Aug 12 2013 ...UPDATED FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING WEATHER... .NEAR TERM [Through Rest of Tonight]... The large scale pattern remains highlighted in the Nrn stream by a blocking pattern with trough from extreme Ern Pacific, ridge from Canadian NW territories SEWD to Wrn TX and trough over NE quarter of U.S. into Canadian Maritimes. Srn stream dominated by flat stacked subtropical ridge gradually weakening from E-W. At surface, high centered over Ern Panhandle. This reflected in 00z Tues RAP13 model soundings PWATS with 1.74 inch at TAE vs 2.09 inches at DHN and in location of Monday's aftn/early eve convection across our Wrn most counties assocd with Gulf seabreeze and outflow clashes. Several were strong to severe. Forecast updated for sct-nmrs convection Wrn counties thru 023z. Also...increased QPF and SKY and reduced temps there. Locally, large scale pattern translates to a hot and stagnant airmass with ample subsidence beneath ridge especially east of Apalachicola River. As a result, afternoon temperatures rose to mid 90s west to near 100 east counties, highest where convection was absent. Coupled with dew points around 70, heat indices soared to near 100 west to 105 to 107 east. Absent upper support, evening convection should end gradually then more rapidly with loss diurnal heating. This reflected in HRRR and WRF. May need to update 00Z-02Z grids for lingering Wrn POPs. Otherwise...high debris clouds from dying convection should dissipate by midnight with skies mostly clear for much of overnight for good viewing of the annual Perseid meteor shower. However, Glamp, SREF again imply patchy light fog towards sunrise, and given high PWATS will go with persistence and may add some fog towards sunrise. Another warm and muggy night with lows in the lower to mid 70s. && .SHORT TERM [Tuesday Through Wednesday Night]... A broad upper level trough will continue to deepen across the eastern CONUS with an axis from the lower Great Lakes to the central Gulf coast. This will push a weak front down to southern AL/GA and advect deep moisture currently just to our west into our area tonight into Tuesday. This points to increasing rain Tuesday focused in the northwest 1/2 of our area... SE AL and the FL panhandle, spreading across the entire region Wednesday and Wednesday night, except portions of the FL Big Bend. Localized heavy rainfall is likely due to the deep moisture and weak flow aloft resulting in very slow storm motion. High temperatures will moderate under cloudy skies from the recent hot readings, with a NW-SE gradient and the warmest temps over the FL Big Bend. Low temperatures will be warm due to increased overnight cloud cover. && .LONG TERM [Thursday through Monday]... A long wave trough will remain in place from the Great Lakes to the central Gulf Coast early in the period as a reinforcing short wave in the northern plains drops into the trough, resulting in a closed low over the Lower Mississippi Valley by Saturday. This low gradually fills and weakens, leaving behind a weak trough for early next week with an axis still to our west. The end result is a prolonged period of rain for the southeast with periods of heavy rain likely. Total rainfall from the GFS indicates areas of rain up to 10 inches across the FL panhandle through Monday, due in part to its development of a tropical cyclone in the gulf which it brings into the FL panhandle Saturday. The Canadian also generates a tropical system similar to the GFS, however the ECMWF does not generate a tropical system and therefore depicts rainfall totals through Monday of about 5 inches. Confidence of a period of heavy rain is high, and if the GFS-advertised tropical system does develop then local rainfall amounts could be double or triple the current WPC 5.5" totals. && .AVIATION [Beginning 18Z Monday]... VFR conditions will prevail through the period with only isolated showers and thunderstorms this evening. Scattered storms will develop in the late morning and early afternoon Tuesday possibly impacting the DHN, ECP and ABY terminals before the end of the TAF cycle. Went with Prob30 groups for those sites. Winds will be light from the west to southwest. && .MARINE... A weak pressure pattern will persist keeping winds around 10 knots or less, with seas 2 feet or less. Thunderstorm activity over the waters will increase by Wednesday. && .FIRE WEATHER... No fire weather concerns. && .HYDROLOGY... Area river levels continue to slowly decrease or remain steady and this. A wet pattern will develop by mid-week, which will begin to increase flows on several rivers later into the week and over the weekend depending on which basins receive the heaviest amounts. As of now the highest model rainfall amounts for the period from Wednesday through the weekend are focused on the FL panhandle into southwest GA, but that is a preliminary outlook. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Tallahassee 74 95 75 92 73 / 10 40 20 60 30 Panama City 78 90 78 89 76 / 20 40 20 50 30 Dothan 75 91 75 89 73 / 20 70 30 70 40 Albany 75 93 76 91 74 / 20 60 30 70 40 Valdosta 72 96 75 94 73 / 10 30 20 60 40 Cross City 73 94 75 94 73 / 10 20 10 30 30 Apalachicola 78 90 79 89 77 / 10 20 20 50 30 && .TAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...None. GA...None. AL...None. GM...None. && NEAR TERM/Marine...Block/Navarro SHORT TERM...Barry LONG TERM...Hollingsworth AVIATION...Hollingsworth/Harrigan FIRE WEATHER...Barry HYDROLOGY...Hollingsworth
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 39 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:14 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The Coffee County Emergency Manager reported several trees down on the northern side of Enterprise.
One tree was blown down along County Road 99 near Headland with no other damage reported.
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