Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 8, 1986, 5:15 AM EST for Taylor County, Florida. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 8, 1986, 5:15 AM EST (10:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 8, 1986, 6:00 AM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Taylor 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
Apalachicola Mun, FL (KAQQ), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTLH 081017 RRA SVRTLH FLC123-081100- BULLETIN -- IMMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 515 AM EST SAT FEB 8 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 6 AM EST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH FLORIDA...TAYLOR. AT 515 AM RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 15 MILES OFF THE COAST OF TAYLOR COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL HIT THE COAST BETWEEN BEFORE 6 AM THIS MORINING. PERSONS ALONG THE COAST SHOULD PREPARED TO GO TO A SAFE SHELTER AS THIS STORM APPROACHES. BOATERS ALONG THE TAYLOR COUNTY COAST SHOULD, IMMEDIATLY SEEK SAFE HARBOR.
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, Feb 8, 3:43 AM EST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 340 AM EST SAT FEB 8 1986 AT 325 AM EST A LARGE AREA OF RAIN ALONG WITH WIDELY SCATTERED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MOST OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND ALSO REACHED OFFSHORE FOR UP TO 75 MILES. THIS AREA ALSO EXTENDED INTO EXTREME SOUTHEAST EAST ALABAMA AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF APALACHICOLA.. JUST SOUTH OF CHATTAHOOCHEE..10 MILES SOUTH OF MARIANNA..AND 15 MILES NORTH OF PANAMA CITY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND ROUGH SEAS. RESIDENTS AND MARINERS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER.
Special weather statement, Feb 8, 4:43 AM EST, 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 443 AM EST SAT FEB 8 1986 AT 431 AM EST A LARGE AREA OF RAIN ALONG WITH WIDELY SCATTERED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MOST OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND ALSO REACHED OFFSHORE FOR UP TO 100 MILES. THIS AREA ALSO EXTENDED INTO EXTREME SOUTHEAST EAST ALABAMA AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN MARIANNA FLORIDA AND BAINBRIDGE GEORGIA..AND ALONG THE COAST 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF PANAMA CITY. OVER THE GULF..THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF ST MARKS..AND 25 MILES SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST OF PENSACOLA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND ROUGH SEAS. RESIDENTS AND MARINERS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER.
Special weather statement, Feb 8, 4:45 AM EST, 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 443 AM EST SAT FEB 8 1986 AT 431 AM EST A LARGE AREA OF RAIN ALONG WITH WIDELY SCATTERED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MOST OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND ALSO REACHED OFFSHORE FOR UP TO 100 MILES. THIS AREA ALSO EXTENDED INTO EXTREME SOUTHEAST EAST ALABAMA AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN MARIANNA FLORIDA AND BAINBRIDGE GEORGIA..AND ALONG THE COAST 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF PANAMA CITY. OVER THE GULF..THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF ST MARKS..AND 25 MILES SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST OF PENSACOLA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 45 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND ROUGH SEAS. RESIDENTS AND MARINERS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER.
Nearby
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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.