Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1993, 1:32 PM CST for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1993, 1:32 PM CST (19:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1993, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 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
- 1840 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 554 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPNS 301939 COR SVRPNS FLC033-113-302030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 132 PM CST TUE MAR 30 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PENSACOLA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ...NORTHERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY...NORTHERN SANTA ROSA COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR OVER THE CENTRAL PORTION OF ESCAMBIA COUNTY OF FLORIDA. IT WAS MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OvR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 30, 12:29 PM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
FLZ003-005-GAZ011-301930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 129 PM EST (1229 PM CST) TUE MAR 30 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO JACKSON AND CALHOUN COUNTIES OF NORTH FLORIDA... AT 125 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS HOLMES...WASHINGTON...AND CALHOUN COUNTIES OF NORTH FLORIDA. THESE STORMS WILL BEGIN TO AFFECT PORTIONS OF JACKSON COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SPREADING ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE BIG BEND OF FLORIDA AND PORTIONS OF EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA DURING THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THESE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPDANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND PERHAPS SOME SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE EAST NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE AREA AT 25 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 2:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 3:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 57 min |
| Mar 30, 3:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Okaloosa, Walton | 57 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.