Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1993, 3:28 PM CDT for Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 1993, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1993, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Santa Rosa County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 2033 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 844 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 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
Local storm report, Jul 7, 12:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 155 PM EDT WED JUL 7 1993 APPROX 110 PM EDT... ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF WEST PASS NEAR ST VINCENT ISLAND WINDS ESTIMATED AT 60 MPH BY FISHING VESSEL CAPTAIN. ALSO REPORTED EXTREMELY FREQUENT CLOUD TO OCEAN STRIKES AND VERY HEAVY RAINS. ALSO AT 109 PM THE FLORIDA HIGHWAY PATROL RELAYED THAT THE FRANKLIN COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPT PHONE SYSTEM WAS OUT OF SERVICE DUE TO LIGHTNING STRIKES.
Local storm report, Jul 7, 1:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 155 PM EDT WED JUL 7 1993 APPROX 110 PM EDT... ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF WEST PASS NEAR ST VINCENT ISLAND WINDS ESTIMATED AT 60 MPH BY FISHING VESSEL CAPTAIN. ALSO REPORTED EXTREMELY FREQUENT CLOUD TO OCEAN STRIKES AND VERY HEAVY RAINS. ALSO AT 109 PM THE FLORIDA HIGHWAY PATROL RELAYED THAT THE FRANKLIN COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPT PHONE SYSTEM WAS OUT OF SERVICE DUE TO LIGHTNING STRIKES.
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 1:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
FLC037-071940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 235 PM EDT WED JUL 7 1993 AT 230 PM EDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE EAST FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER GULF COUNTY FROM 5 TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF PORT ST JOE TO JUST NORTH OF WEWAHITCHKA. PEOPLE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. ELSEWHERE...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND REGION AS WELL AS OVER THE ADJACENT GULF OUT TO 50 MILES OFF THE COAST. NNNN AREA SUMMARY: ISOLATED MODERATE ECHOES-FREQ CG LTGSTORM DATA: BEARING REFLECTIVITY CG LIGHTNING MOVEMENT DEG NM MAX TREND FREQ TREND DIR SPD 043/010 4 + FREQ + NEW -- 332/003 3 + FREQ + NEW --THUNDERSTORM AT AIRPORT: YES ORF (WITHIN 30 NM OF AIRPORT) OBS TIME: 1815 UTCAREA SUMMARY: NO ECHOES DETECTED-NO CG LTGSTORM DATA: NO STORMS DETECTEDTHUNDERSTORM AT AIRPORT: NO ILG (WITHIN 30 NM OF AIRPORT) OBS TIME: 1815 UTCAREA SUMMARY: ISOLATED LIGHT ECHOES-NO CG LTGSTORM DATA: NO STORMS DETECTEDTHUNDERSTORM AT AIRPORT: NO
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 1:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
FLC037-071940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 235 PM EDT WED JUL 7 1993 AT 230 PM EDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE EAST FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER GULF COUNTY FROM 5 TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF PORT ST JOE TO JUST NORTH OF WEWAHITCHKA. PEOPLE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. ELSEWHERE...WIDELY SCATTERED4 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND REGION AS WELL AS OVER THE ADJACENT GULF OUT TO 50 MILES OFF THE COAST. NNNN
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 1:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
FLC037-071940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION FOR MOVEMENT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 235 PM EDT WED JUL 7 1993 AT 230 PM EDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE EAST FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER GULF COUNTY FROM 5 TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF PORT ST JOE TO JUST NORTH OF WEWAHITCHKA. PEOPLE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHWEST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND REGION AS WELL AS OVER THE ADJACENT GULF OUT TO 50 MILES OFF THE COAST. > NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 11:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin | 33 min |
| Jul 7, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Tift, Worth | 56 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.