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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Sep 8, 1992, 2:18 PM CDT for Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 8, 1992, 2:18 PM CDT (19:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1992, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gulf County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 1133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 886 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 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 KAQQ 081918 TORAQQ FLC045-081945- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 318 PM EDT TUE SEP 8 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN APALACHICOLA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ...GULF COUNTY RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR PORT ST JOE. FOR MARINE INTERESTS FROM BEACON HILL TO INDIAN PASS
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
Local storm report, Sep 8, 9:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...DELAYED REPORT FROM MON SEP 7
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
945 AM EDT TUE SEP 8 1992
TIME (EDT) COUNTY EVENT
1700-1730 THOMAS RADIO STATION WPAX NEWS DIRECTOR MARK
09/07/92 BRENNER REPORTS THAT A SINGLE PINE TREE
FELL ON A HOUSE IN THOMASVILLE..THOMAS
COUNTY..GEORGIA. THIS DAMAGE DETERMINED
NOT DUE TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS BUT
RESULT OF WEAKENED ROOT STRUCTURE DUE TO
STURATED SOILS FROM RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL.
THUNDERSTORMS IN THOMAS COUNTY AT TIME
WERE BWING ADDRESSED IN SPECIAL WEATHER
STATEMENTS.Special weather statement, Sep 8, 12:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
FLZ003-005-081845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 141 PM EDT (1241 PM CDT) TUE SEP 8 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS BEGINING TO BUILD ACROSS BIG BEND REGION... AT 140 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS HAD BEGUN TO DEVELOP ACROSS MOST OF LIBERTY COUNTY OF NORTH FLORIDA. SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING OVER PARTS OF GADSDEN AND CALHOUN COUNTIES. THE ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH AT 10 MPH. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO AN INCH ARE PROBABLY FALLING ACROSS THE NORTH CENTRAL PORTIONS OF LIBERTY COUNTY IN ASSOCIATION WITH THESE STORMS. IN ADDITION...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND PERHAPS SOME SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS. THE FORECAST THIS AFTERNOON CALLS FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS THE BIG BEND REGION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 12:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
FLZ003-005-081845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 141 PM EDT (1241 PM CDT) TUE SEP 8 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS BEGINING TO BUILD ACROSS BIG BEND REGION... AT 140 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS HAD BEGUN TO DEVELOP ACROSS MOST OF LIBERTY COUNTY OF NORTH FLORIDA. SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING OVER PARTS OF GADSDEN AND CALHOUN COUNTIES. THE ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH AT 10 MPH. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO AN INCH ARE PROBABLY FALLING ACROSS THE NORTH CENTRAL PORTIONS OF LIBERTY COUNTY IN ASSOCIATION WITH THESE STORMS. IN ADDITION...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND PERHAPS SOME SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS. THE FORECAST THIS AFTERNOON CALLS FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS THE BIG BEND REGION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
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.