Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1992, 4:19 PM EST for Dixie County, Florida. It was in force for 41 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
- Mar 25, 1992, 4:19 PM EST (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 1992, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dixie County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 4:20 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Dixie, 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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 359 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, Mar 25, 12:58 PM EST, 3 hours 21 minutes before
FLZ004-251900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FLORIDA 130 PM EST WED MAR 25 1992 AT 130 PM ...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS OVER MOST OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST TO EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE WERE PRODUCING STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BEWARE OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL.
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 1:21 PM EST, 2 hours 58 minutes before
FLZ004-251900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FLORIDA 130 PM EST WED MAR 25 1992 AT 130 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS OVER MOST OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST TO EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BEWARE OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND bBRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL.
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 1:53 PM EST, 2 hours 26 minutes before
FLZ004-251900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FLORIDA 230 PM EST WED MAR 25 1992 AT 230 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS CONTINUING OVER FRANKLIN COUNTY. ALSO...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AND EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND COULD MOVE OVER LAND IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BEWARE OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL.
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 2:16 PM EST, 2 hours 3 minutes before
FLZ005-006-007-252015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 218 PM EST WED MAR 25 1992 ....TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR DIXIE AND MADISON COUNTIES IN NORTH FLORIDA UNTIL 8 PM EST... AT 215 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS COVERING MUCH OF THE EASTERN HALF OF THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AREA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OFFSHORE OF WAKULLA AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. THE ACTIVITY IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE GUSTY WINDS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 1
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 3:05 PM EST, 1 hour 14 minutes before
FLZ005-006-007-252100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 305 PM EST WED MAR 25 1992 ...THIS STATEMENT IS FOR RESIDENTS OF DIXIE..TAYLOR AND MADISON COUNTIES IN NORTHERN FLORIDA... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR DIXIE AND MADISON COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM EST THIS EVENING. AT 300 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS COVERING MUCH OF THE EASTERN BIG BEND AREA OF FLORIDA. THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED OFFSHORE TAYLOR AND DIXIE COUNTIES. THIS AREA OF PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL..GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 3:35 PM EST, 44 minutes before
FLZ006-252145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 335 PM EST WED MAR 25 1992 THIS STATEMENT IS FOR PERSONS IN DIXIE COUNTY AND ITS OFFSHORE COASTAL WATERS...AND IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST TAYLOR COUNTY. AT 330 PM EST APALACHICOLA WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED OVER THE COASTAL WATERS OF DIXIE COUNTY FLORIDA...AND WAS MOVING RAPIDLY EASTWARD INTO WESTERN PORTIONS OF DIXIE COUNTY...AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF TAYLOR COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. IN ADDITION...BOATERS IN THE COASTAL WATERS OF DIXIE AND SOUTHERN TAYLOR COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR LOCALLY ROUGH SEAS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF WATERSPOUTS DURING THE NEXT HOUR AS THIS THUNDERSTORM MOVES THROUGH THE AREA.
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.