Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1986, 4:45 PM CDT for Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 1986, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1986, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 55 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2020 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1425 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 1:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 255 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 1986 RADAR SHOWED SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES NORTHEAST TO 15 SOUTHWEST OF TALLAHASSEE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL..DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES..STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE TALLAHASSEE FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO.
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 1:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 255 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 1986 RADAR SHOWED SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES NORTHEAST TO 15 SOUTHWEST OF TALLAHASSEE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL..DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES..STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE TALLAHASSEE AREA FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO.
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVIC APALACHICOLA FL 335 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 1986 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PERSONS IN GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE UNTIL 10 PM EDT. AT 325 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE FROM PENSACOLA TO NEAR MADISON AND OVER NORTH FLORIDA IN GILCHRIST..SUWANNEE AND COLUMBIA COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NOeRTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. OVER THE GULF WIDELY SCATTERED STRON THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING FROM 50 TO BEYOND 125 MILES SOUTH THROUGH SOUTHWEST OF APALACHICOLA.
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 3:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 405 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 1986 AT 400 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LARGE THUNDERSTORM AND VERY HEAVY RAIN IN JEFFERSON COUNTY JUST WEST OF MONTICELLO. PUBLIC REPORTED ONE HALF INCH HAIL 5 MILES WEST OF MONTICELLO. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS..DAMANAGING WINDS.. AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHUR DEVELOPMENTS ON THIS STORM OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 3:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVIC APALACHICOLA FL 435 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 1986 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PERSONS IN GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE UNTIL 10 PM EDT. AT 427 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND NORTH FLORIDA FROM PENSACOLA TO NEAR LAKE CITY, AND OVER SOUTH ALABAMA AND SOUTH GEORGIA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. OVER THE GULF WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS..WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN.. WERE OCCURRING FROM 100 TO BEYON 125 MILES SOUTHWEST OF APALACHICOLA.
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 4:37 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVIC APALACHICOLA FL 536 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 1986 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PERSONS IN GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE UNTIL 10 PM EDT. AT 525 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND NORTH FLORIDA FROM PENSACOLA TO NEAR LAKE CITY AND THE COASTAL WATERS OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER SOUTH ALABAMA AND SOUTH GEORGIA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. OVER THE GULF WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING FROM 100 TO BEYOND 125 MILES SOUTH THROUGH SOUTHWEST OF APALACHICOLA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 1:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Escambia | 55 min |
| Aug 2, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Leon | 57 min |
| Aug 2, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 58 min |
| Aug 2, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Okaloosa, Walton | 60 min |
| Aug 1, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Cook | 42 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.