Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 1987, 11:29 AM EST for Gadsden County, Florida. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 1987, 11:29 AM EST (16:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 1987, 12:30 PM EST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gadsden 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 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 299 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 548 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
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, Mar 26, 7:04 AM EST, 4 hours 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 655 AM EST THU MAR 26 1987 ...TRAVELERS ADVISORY FOR DENSE FOG TIL MID MORNING... DENSE FOG HAS REDUCED VISIBILITY OVER GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES OF NORTH FLORIDA TO NEAR ZERO IN SOME LOCATIONS. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION AND ALLOW EXTRA TIME IN DRIVING TO WORK THIS MORNING AS CHILDREN ARE ON THEIR WAY TO SCHOOL. MARNIE INTERESTS SHOULD ALSO USE CAUTION WHILE ON THE OPEN WATER. CONDITIONS SHOULD IMPROVE BY MID-MORNING.
Special weather statement, Mar 26, 7:07 AM EST, 4 hours 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 655 AM EST THU MAR 26 1987 ...TRAVELERS ADVISORY FOR DENSE FOG TIL MID MORNING... DENSE FOG HAS REDUCED VISIBILITY OVER GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES OF NORTH FLORIDA TO NEAR ZERO IN SOME LOCATIONS. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION AND ALLOW EXTRA TIME IN DRIVING TO WORK THIS MORNING AS CHILDREN ARE ON THEIR WAY TO SCHOOL. MARINE INTERESTS SHOULD ALSO USE CAUTION WHILE ON THE OPEN WATER. CONDITIONS SHOULD IMPROVE BY MID-MORNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 12:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady | 58 min |
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.