Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 10, 1988, 12:41 PM CDT for Okaloosa County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 10, 1988, 12:41 PM CDT (17:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 1988, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Okaloosa County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 1:38 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Walton, FL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Apalachicola Mun, FL (KAQQ), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 1373 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KPNS 101743
TORPNS
FLC091-131-101845-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
1241 PM CDT SAT SEP 10 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PENSACOLA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
...OKALOOSA...WALTON
REPORTS FROM WALTON COUNTY OFFICIALS INDICATE THAT TORNADOES OR
TORNADO-LIKE WIND DAMAGE HAS OCCURRED IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS IN WALTON
COUNTY. SOME OF THE REPORTS ARE FROM STORM DAMAGE ALONG THE WALTON AND
OKALOOSA COUNTY LINE.
THE WEATHER RADAR INDICATES THAT THE STORMS AND STORM CLOUDS WERE
MOVING TO THE NORTH AT NEAR 35 MPH.
THIS IS A DANGEROU3S SITUATION!The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 1:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Santa Rosa | 6 hr |
| Sep 10, 10:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 2 hr |
| Sep 10, 11:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Okaloosa | 63 min |
| Sep 10, 11:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 66 min |
| Sep 10, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 65 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Florida, 1988Every tornado warning in 1988Tornadoes in 1988
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.