Upper level troughing and a weak surface front affected the region for a couple of days at the end of the month. Ample instability contributed to the development of a few severe storms with damaging winds the main threat.
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The episode as NWS TAE wrote it up.
Upper level troughing and a weak surface front affected the region for a couple of days at the end of the month. Ample instability contributed to the development of a few severe storms with damaging winds the main threat.
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 Jun 28, 9:50 AM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1150 AM EDT Fri Jun 28 2013 .NEAR TERM [Through Tonight]... Active weather should continue through the region during today and tonight. The main focus for today should be the ongoing thunderstorms in North Florida into parts of southern Georgia, and offshore over the Gulf. Tonight, another MCS with possible damaging winds could impact portions of our area. Surface analysis from 13Z shows a very moist airmass, with dewpoints in the mid-upper 70s across much of the area. Also, PWAT values greater than 2 inches currently sit over North Florida and the Gulf. Also, in locations that have not already seen convection develop and receive ample daytime heating, CAPE values could exceed 4000 J/Kg later this afternoon. These factors point to widespread thunderstorms continuing into the afternoon over parts of our CWA, especially over our North Florida and southern Georgia counties. The main threats from these storms will be heavy rainfall and frequent lightning, with some potentially gusty winds in the stronger storms. Cooler temperatures aloft currently reside over the Mid-South region, with the morning RAOB from BMX showing steep lapse rates of 8.3 C/Km in the 800-650 mb layer. Favorable lapse rates extend into our northwest counties and should persist through the late afternoon/early evening, when another area of convection should develop over southeast Alabama and southwest Georgia. This convection could congeal into an MCS, as shown by the local CAM models, and progress southward into the Florida Panhandle and possibly Big Bend regions later this evening. The main threats from this feature will be frequent lightning and potentially damaging winds, with heavy rain also possible in the stronger storms. After midnight through the early morning hours, convection should diminish in coverage over much of the region, but enough moisture and dynamical support will remain to produce some scattered showers and thunderstorms over north Florida, especially the coastal regions, and over our marine regions of the Gulf as well. Highs today should reach the low-mid 90s in areas that receive no precipitation and breaks in the cloud cover through the afternoon hours, but remain in the 80s in areas where precipitation and more cloud cover persists. Muggy conditions will continue through the night, with lows and dewpoints in the mid-70s across the CWA. && .SHORT TERM [Saturday Through Sunday]... The period will commence with a continued unusually high amplification of the large scale pattern. This is highlighted by a ridge from west coast to Ms River with high centered over 4 corners, and trough ewd into extreme wrn Atlc with axis just east of local region so NW steering flow will prevail. Trough will deepen overnight into Sat as shortwave digs from OH Valley into TN Valley. At surface, low over NE states with cold front swd across Nrn most AL/GA. South of front, dew points will hover in the mid 70s. On Sat, the upper trough continues to dig SSW with local steering flow shifting to W late in day. On Sun, as upper ridge retrogrades further, abnormally deep Ern trough axis shifts further SWWD into NRN Gulf with steering flow shifting to SWLY and with best moisture shifting further Swd each day. This shift in steering flow would cut off MCS development even further. Rather, it will bring increasingly deep layer Gulf moisture Nwd and reactivate Gulf Coast seabreeze which will move further onshore. Also, deepening trough brings cold front to our doorstep by Sun where it brings it into marine area (GFS) or stalls it over land (ECMWF and NAM) keeping juicy unstable airmass over us. Will blend but lean towards latter solution so will slow down front which keeps in forecast longer. All this reflected in model soundings which deep SW tropical plume from surface to H2 and PWATS in excess of 2 inches south of front. All this upper and lower dynamics, good CAPE (i.e. at 18z Sat, GFS with 3200 j/kg SFC CAPE in SE AL/SW GA/adjacent FL) but shear noticeably less impressive. This favors at least strong if not pulse severe storms especially wet microbursts. If seabreeze/ outflows and passing impulses come together, more organized severe storms are possible. This pattern also favors training of cells over what should be already saturated grounds so locally heavy rain and flooding concerns are a concern. Will go with likely POPS for most of the area Sat and Sun, mid to high sct POPs at night. With ample low level moisture and high dew points it will feel very sultry. However this will be somewhat tempered by ample cloud cover. Expect highs only topping out in the upper 80s to near 90 on Sat and mid to upper 80s on Sun. However the heat index each day will be in the mid to upper 90s on Sat and the mid 90s on Sun. && .LONG TERM [Sunday Night through Thursday]... Unseasonably deep upper trough is forecast to continue slowly retrograding through the middle of next week, keeping most of the forecast area under the influence of a moist and unsettled southwesterly deep layer flow. At the surface, a relatively stationary frontal boundary will remain in place, roughly bisecting the forecast area from northeast to southwest early in the period, before sliding back to the west by the middle of the week. Areas to the east of this boundary will have the greatest potential for heavy rain, with lighter amounts expected west of the boundary. Exactly where this boundary is on a day-to-day basis remain uncertain, so have kept the PoP gradient somewhat broad, with the highest PoPs (60s-70s) in the east and lower PoPs (30-40s) in the west. && .AVIATION [Through 12Z Saturday]...VFR to commence the day, then VCTS 13z-17z all but VLD then there is higher confidence in prevailing 17z-03z thunderstorms at TLH and VLD, with MVFR CIGS/VSBYS in any heavy rain or with stronger storms. Otherwise VFR conditions will prevail thru 12z except for brief MVFR in any heavier rain. && .MARINE... Light Southwesterly flow over the waters is forecast to gradually increase into the weekend as a frontal boundary approaches from the north, and the Bermuda high strengthens over the western Atlantic. This may lead to cautionary conditions well offshore by sunrise Sat and everywhere during the day, Brief Advisory level conditions are possible Wrn waters on Sat spreading to Ern waters Saturday night. Thereafter, moderate southwesterly winds are forecast to continue into early next week. Divided CWF into nearshore and offshore to account for higher winds and seas offshore. && .FIRE WEATHER... Average to above average summertime moisture levels will keep Red Flag conditions out of the forecast for the foreseeable future. Above average rain chances are expected through the weekend. && .HYDROLOGY... As upper level troughing digs into the Sern U.S., we will enter a wet pattern. Expect a rainy weekend with around 2-2.5" of rainfall across the forecast area with locally higher amounts where showers are heaviest. While this is over a more widespread area than we've been seeing lately, it is over the course of a 3 day period, and there are currently no area rivers that are in flood or action stage. No area rivers are anticipated to reach flood stage at this time. Some storms with locally higher rainfall amounts may cause flooding of urban and/or low-lying areas. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Tallahassee 92 74 89 72 89 / 80 50 70 50 60 Panama City 84 79 87 78 86 / 80 50 60 40 50 Dothan 94 75 91 72 90 / 60 60 60 40 40 Albany 93 73 91 72 89 / 60 60 70 50 50 Valdosta 95 75 89 73 89 / 60 40 70 50 60 Cross City 90 75 89 73 89 / 80 40 60 50 60 Apalachicola 87 79 87 78 85 / 80 50 60 40 60 && .TAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...None. GA...None. AL...None. GM...None. && NEAR TERM...Godsey/Lahr SHORT TERM...Block LONG TERM...Camp AVIATION...Block MARINE...Godsey/Lahr/Block FIRE WEATHER...Godsey/Lahr/Block HYDROLOGY...Moore/Block
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 208 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013 GAZ144-145-281900- MITCHELL GA-BAKER GA- 208 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013 ...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR BAKER AND MITCHELL COUNTIES IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA... * UNTIL 300 PM EDT AT 204 PM EDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR NEWTON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... NEWTON BY 215 PM EDT. CAMILLA BY 240 PM EDT. BACONTON BY 245 PM EDT. PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT (8 5 0) 9 4 2 8 8 3 3. OR...CONTACT LAW ENFORCEMENT. && LAT...LON 3138 8400 3112 8401 3131 8448 3142 8442 TIME...MOT...LOC 1808Z 284DEG 17KT 3134 8437 38-GODSEY
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 225 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013 GAZ143-155-156-281915- MILLER GA-DECATUR GA-SEMINOLE GA- 225 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013 ...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN DECATUR...MILLER AND NORTHEASTERN SEMINOLE COUNTIES IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA... * UNTIL 315 PM EDT AT 224 PM EDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF DONALSONVILLE...OR NEAR ENTERPRISE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS 50 TO 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT (8 5 0) 9 4 2 8 8 3 3. OR...CONTACT LAW ENFORCEMENT. && LAT...LON 3119 8454 3100 8454 3103 8486 3116 8485 TIME...MOT...LOC 1825Z 277DEG 19KT 3108 8477 38-GODSEY
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
244 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013
GAZ129-146-147-281930-
TIFT GA-COLQUITT GA-COOK GA-
244 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013
...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEASTERN
COLQUITT...NORTHERN COOK AND TIFT COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL
GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 330 PM EDT
AT 243 PM EDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETECTED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM NEAR OMEGA...OR NEAR EXCELSIOR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10
MPH.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
OMEGA BY 250 PM EDT.
LENOX BY 330 PM EDT.
WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT (8 5 0)
9 4 2 8 8 3 3. OR...CONTACT LAW ENFORCEMENT.
&&
LAT...LON 3135 8344 3130 8344 3127 8340 3123 8343
3126 8351 3128 8360 3133 8366 3143 8366
3151 8363 3142 8337 3140 8337
TIME...MOT...LOC 1844Z 299DEG 11KT 3137 8360
38-GODSEYSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
307 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013
GAZ146-282000-
COLQUITT GA-
307 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013
...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR COLQUITT COUNTY
IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...
* UNTIL 400 PM EDT
AT 306 PM EDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETECTED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM NEAR MOULTRIE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
NORMAN PARK BY 325 PM EDT.
PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.
REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT (8 5 0)
9 4 2 8 8 3 3. OR...CONTACT LAW ENFORCEMENT.
&&
LAT...LON 3120 8351 3117 8354 3111 8356 3109 8357
3112 8388 3130 8387 3132 8357 3132 8351
3130 8352 3128 8351
TIME...MOT...LOC 1908Z 271DEG 16KT 3121 8376
38-GODSEYSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
344 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013
ALZ069-GAZ142-155-282030-
HOUSTON AL-EARLY GA-SEMINOLE GA-
244 PM CDT FRI JUN 28 2013
...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR EARLY AND
SEMINOLE COUNTIES IN SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA AND HOUSTON COUNTY IN
SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 330 PM CDT/430 PM EDT/
AT 241 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETECTED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ASHFORD...OR NEAR HARMON...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT (8 5 0)
9 4 2 8 8 3 3. OR...CONTACT LAW ENFORCEMENT.
&&
LAT...LON 3111 8492 3108 8493 3107 8488 3096 8498
3098 8501 3100 8500 3100 8510 3110 8523
3119 8512
TIME...MOT...LOC 1944Z 300DEG 15KT 3111 8513
38-GODSEYSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
356 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013
ALZ065-068-282045-
COFFEE AL-GENEVA AL-
256 PM CDT FRI JUN 28 2013
...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN COFFEE
AND GENEVA COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 345 PM CDT
AT 255 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETECTED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW BROCKTON...OR NEAR GOODMAN...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.
REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT (8 5 0)
9 4 2 8 8 3 3. OR...CONTACT LAW ENFORCEMENT.
&&
LAT...LON 3140 8594 3127 8579 3120 8579 3120 8571
3112 8563 3109 8598 3127 8612
TIME...MOT...LOC 1956Z 313DEG 17KT 3128 8598
38-GODSEYThe Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 43 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:00 UTC.
10 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree fell on a mobile home in Ashley Trailer Park near Highway 27 South and Boll Weevil Circle. There was no other damage reported in the county. Monetary damage was estimated.
Trees and power lines were blown down near Highway 85.
Trees were blown down across four vehicles on Thompson Drive. Monetary damage was estimated.
Trees were blown down near County Road 47.
A tree fell on the roof of a home on Wheat Street. Monetary damage was estimated.
Trees were blown down at the Dothan Country Club downtown and along main street downtown.
A tree fell on the roof of a home on Galaxie Drive. Monetary damage was estimated.
Trees and power lines were blown down in Cowarts.
Trees and power lines were blown down in Ardilla as reported by the public via social media.
Trees and power lines were blown down around Ashford as reported by the public via social media.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alabama in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, June 2013
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 452684, 452693, 452692, 452694, 452686, 452688, 452687, 452689, 452690, 452691.