Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 1992, 5:08 PM CDT for Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 1992, 5:08 PM CDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1992, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Santa Rosa County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 520 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 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 KPNS 062209 TORPNS FLC113-062245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 508 PM CDT SUN SEP 6 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PENSACOLA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ...SOUTHERN SANTA ROSA COUNTY THE PARK SERVICE HAS REPORTED THAT A WATERSPOUT HAS MOVED ASHORE THREE MILES WEST OF NAVARRE BEACH FLORIDA AND WAS HEADED ACROSS THE SANTA ROSA SOUND TOWARD THE MAINLAND. THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHNORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH ORx PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Sep 6, 11:56 AM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
FLZ005-060600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1257 AM EDT SUN SEP 6 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN WAKULLA COUNTY MOVING TOWARD THE TALLAHASSEE AREA... AT 1255 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER NORTHEASTERN WAKULLA COUNTY AND WERE MOVING NORTHWARD TOWARD THE TALLAHASSEE AREA AND EASTERN LEON COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO DEVELOPING OVER WEST CENTRAL LEON COUNTY TO THE WEST OF TALLAHASEE AND PARTS OF FRANKLIN AND GULF COUNTIES OF NORTH FLORIDA. ALL OF THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHWARD AT 10 MPH. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS CAN EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STROrNG GUSTY WINDS...AND PERHAPS SOME SMALL HAIL IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 12:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 8 minutes before
FLZ005-061800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1257 PM EDT SUN SEP 6 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN WAKULLA COUNTY MOVING TOWARD THE TALLAHASSEE AREA... AT 1255 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER NORTHEASTERN WAKULLA COUNTY AND WERE MOVING NORTHWARD TOWARD THE TALLAHASSEE AREA AND EASTERN LEON COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO DEVELOPING OVER WEST CENTRAL LEON COUNTY TO THE WEST OF TALLAHASEE AND PARTS OF FRANKLIN AND GULF COUNTIES OF NORTH FLORIDA. ALL OF THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHWARD AT 10 MPH. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS CAN EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND PERHAPS SOME SMALL HAIL IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 12:39 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
FL04-061835- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 135 PM EDT SUN SEP 6 1992 WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIS OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. PEOPLE IN THE VICINITY OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF IT APPROACHES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 12:41 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
FL04-061835- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 135 PM EDT SUN SEP 6 1992 WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. PEOPLE IN THE VICINITY OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF IT APPROACHES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 12:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
FLZ005-061845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 150 PM EDT SUN SEP 6 1992 ..STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE TALLAHASSEE AREA MOVING NORTH... AT 150 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN THE TALLAHASSEE AREA MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED WIND GUSTS OF 35 MPH WITHIN THE LATS FEW MINUTES AT THE TALLAHASEE REGIONAL AIRPORT. THE STORM WILL MOVE OVER THE WESTERN PART OF THE CITY DURING THE NEXT HALF HOUR. PERSONS IN THIS AREA CAN EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND PERHAPS SOME SMALL HAIL WITH THE THUNDERSTORM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 1:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
FLZ003-005-061945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 248 PM EDT (148 PM CDT) SUN SEP 6 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER BIG BEND REGION... AT 245 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME WESTERN LEON...EXTREME NORTHWESTERN WAKULLA...AND CENTRAL LIBERTY COUNTIES OF NORTH FLORIDA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS OVER CENTRAL LIBERTY COUNTY NEAR HOSFORD. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS OF 35 MPH OR MORE...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND PERHAPS SOME SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE NORTH AT 10 MPH. AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN TALLAHASEE...OVER 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN LESS THAN ONE HOUR IN ASSOCIATION WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVED OVER THE AIRPORT. SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
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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.