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, 3:07 PM EST, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 407 PM EDT Fri Jun 28 2013 ...Severe Storms Possible into this evening... .NEAR TERM [Through Tonight]... Very unstable airmass this afternoon is fueling widespread convection across much of the forecast area. With the Big Bend worked over earlier today, the primary focus for severe weather into this evening will be across SE Alabama, SW Georgia, and possibly the Florida Panhandle. Most of the activity has been of the pulse severe variety. However, a southward moving outflow boundary moving into SE Alabama is providing a focus for slightly more organized activity. Damaging wind gusts will continue to be the primary concern. While some of the hi-res guidance suggests more strong storms overnight, the current widespread activity should the stabilize the atmosphere significantly by late evening. This should reduce the coverage and intensity of any overnight convection. && .SHORT TERM [Saturday Through Sunday Night]... Upper trough axis (currently along the eastern seaboard) will retrograde to the west tonight into Saturday, with the axis ending up west of the forecast area. In addition, a frontal boundary will drop south into the area by Saturday and stall across SE Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. This will create a favorable pattern for convection, especially east of the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee Rivers, with a very moist airmass and weak shortwave energy rounding the base of the trough. As with Friday morning, the convection may get an early start along the coast, so will have relatively high PoPs in place throughout the day. Conditions will change little by Sunday, with the eastern half of the area favored once again. && .LONG TERM [Monday through Friday]... Unseasonably deep trough will be in place over the eastern half of the country through next week. This will keep moist and deep southwesterly flow across the forecast area with enhanced rain chances for most of the week. Periods of more widespread rain will likely be governed by timing of weak upper/lower level features, which are difficult to predict this far out. Therefore, will continue with a general forecast of likely PoPs for the eastern half of area early in the week, with the higher PoPs spreading west by midweek as the upper level trough slowly retrogrades. && .AVIATION [Through 18Z Saturday]... Scattered thunderstorms are currently firing in our Georgia and Alabama counties, putting ABY, DHN, and VLD at the greatest risk for reduced visibility this afternoon. IFR conditions could occur in these storms. Also, around 21Z today, the line of thunderstorms currently in Alabama will move into our region and impact DHN and ABY in the early evening hours. This line will contain strong to potentially severe wind gusts, frequent lightning, and heavy rain. After the thunderstorms pass through, patchy fog is possible at all terminals early tomorrow morning around sunset. More scattered thunderstorms are possible tomorrow. && .MARINE... Southwesterly flow will be on the increase through the weekend as the Bermuda high strengthens over the western Atlantic and a frontal boundary approaches the northern Gulf Coast. Expect exercise caution conditions to develop overnight and continue through most of the weekend. Brief periods of advisory level winds will be possible late Saturday into Sunday. && .FIRE WEATHER... Red flag conditions are not expected due to above average relative humidity values throughout the period. && .HYDROLOGY...A wet weather pattern will be in place through the weekend and into early next week. Widespread 2 to 4 inch rainfall amounts are anticipated through Monday, with isolated higher amounts. With no area rivers in flood or action stage, no river flooding is expected. However, locally heavy rainfall may cause flooding of some urban and/or low-lying areas. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Tallahassee 74 90 74 89 72 / 70 70 50 70 40 Panama City 79 87 79 87 77 / 70 60 50 60 30 Dothan 75 92 72 91 71 / 80 60 40 50 30 Albany 73 91 73 89 71 / 80 60 40 60 40 Valdosta 75 89 73 88 72 / 70 70 50 70 50 Cross City 75 88 74 88 73 / 40 70 60 70 50 Apalachicola 79 86 79 86 77 / 70 60 60 60 40 && .TAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...None. GA...None. AL...None. GM...None. && NEAR TERM...Godsey/Lahr SHORT TERM...Camp LONG TERM...Camp AVIATION...Godsey/Lahr MARINE...Godsey/Camp FIRE WEATHER...Godsey/Lahr HYDROLOGY...Camp
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
519 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0435 PM TSTM WND DMG 4 NNE GENEVA 31.09N 85.85W
06/28/2013 GENEVA AL EMERGENCY MNGR
TREES DOWN ACROSS 4 VEHICLES ON THOMPSON DRIVE.
&&
HARRIGANSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
523 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013
FLZ010-011-282230-
JACKSON FL-WASHINGTON FL-
423 PM CDT FRI JUN 28 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR JACKSON AND WASHINGTON
COUNTIES IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...
* UNTIL 530 PM CDT
AT 420 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETECTED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
COTTONWOOD TO CHIPLEY...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM GRANGEBURG TO
CHIPLEY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
MARIANNA BY 450 PM CDT.
WINDS 50 TO 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
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 3075 8562 3089 8558 3094 8553 3096 8553
3099 8549 3100 8515 3093 8497 3091 8496
3089 8496 3064 8539 3064 8541 3074 8566
TIME...MOT...LOC 2124Z 287DEG 27KT 3098 8523 3080 8552
38-GODSEYPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
525 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0430 PM TSTM WND DMG ESE BELLWOOD 31.17N 85.79W
06/28/2013 GENEVA AL EMERGENCY MNGR
POWERLINES AND TREES DOWN NEAR HIGHWAY 85.
&&
HARRIGANPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
528 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0440 PM TSTM WND DMG 3 NNW HARTFORD 31.15N 85.72W
06/28/2013 GENEVA AL EMERGENCY MNGR
TREES DOWN NEAR COUNTY ROAD 47.
&&
HARRIGANPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
606 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0520 PM TSTM WND DMG 1 W DAWSON 31.77N 84.46W
06/28/2013 TERRELL GA 911 CALL CENTER
TREES DOWN IN MULTIPLE LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY
INCLUDING WEST HIGHWAY 82 OUTSIDE OF DAWSON.
&&
HARRIGANPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
615 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0553 PM TSTM WND DMG FAIRCHILD 30.82N 84.91W
06/28/2013 SEMINOLE GA 911 CALL CENTER
MULTIPLE TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE.
&&
HARRIGANThe Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 30 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:34 UTC.
6 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree was blown down across Tolar White Road in the Greensboro area.
A power line was blown down in the Havana area.
A tree was blown down across Highway 177A.
Power lines were blown down in Vernon.
A tree was blown down near the intersection of Highway 79 and Millers Ferry Road.
A tree was blown down near the intersection of Dog Track Road and Strickland Road.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Florida in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, 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: 452700, 452701, 452702, 452703, 452704, 452705.