Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1994, 3:43 PM EDT for Taylor County, Florida. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 1994, 3:43 PM EDT (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1994, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Taylor County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 330 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 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, Aug 16, 11:45 AM EDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Aug 16, 1:41 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
FLZ011-013-016>019-026>028-034-505-GAZ155>159-162045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 143 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994 ...A FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR LEON AND WAKULLA COUNTIES OF NORTH FLORIDA UNTIL 930 PM EDT... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST GEORGIA THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EDT FOR MADISON... TAYLOR AND DIXIE COUNTIES IN NORTH FLORIDA...AND FOR THOMAS AND BROOKS COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN GEORGIA... AT 130 PM EDT TROPICAL DEPRESSION BERYL WAS LOCATED EAST OF COLUMBUS GEORGIA AND CONTINUED TO MOVE NORTH NORTHEAST. THE EFFECTS OF THE DEPRESSION WILL CONTINUE OVER THE FLORIDA BIG BEND...PANHANDLE...AND COASTAL WATERS...AS WELL AS SOUTH GEORGIA FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG ONSHORE WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE SOME COASTAL FLOODING ALONG THE BIG BEND COAST. TIDES ALONG THE COAST OF TAYLOR AND DIXIE COUNTIES WILL CONTINUE TO BE ABOVE NORMAL BEFORE DECREASING THIS EVENING. TORNADOES ARE STILL A POSSIBILITY THIS AFTERNOON IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. RESIDENTS SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER CLOSELY AND BE READY TO MOVE TO A SAFE LOCATION SHOULD THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP RAPIDLY AND WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING IN THESE TROPICAL CONDITIONS. OVERNIGHT AND THIS MORNING...EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN HAS CAUSED NUMEROUS FLOODING PROBLEMS ACROSS THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. THE HEAVIER RAINS HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...EXCEPT FOR DIXIE COUNTY WHERE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE STILL POSSIBLE. PEOPLE ARE REMINDED THAT LOCALIZED FLOODING CAN BE VERY HAZARDOUS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH WATER ON ROADWAYS. IN ADDITION TO THE FLOODING CONDITIONS...GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA FOR THE REST OF THE AFTEROON. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR HIGHER WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 45 MPH WILL CONTINUE ACROSS DIXIE COUNTY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 1:43 PM EDT, 2 hours before
FLZ011-013-016>019-026>028-034-505-GAZ155>159-162045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 143 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994 ...A FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR LEON AND WAKULLA COUNTIES OF NORTH FLORIDA UNTIL 930 PM EDT... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST GEORGIA THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EDT FOR MADISON... TAYLOR AND DIXIE COUNTIES IN NORTH FLORIDA...AND FOR THOMAS AND BROOKS COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN GEORGIA... AT 130 PM EDT TROPICAL DEPRESSION BERYL WAS LOCATED EAST OF COLUMBUS GEORGIA AND CONTINUED TO MOVE NORTH NORTHEAST. THE EFFECTS OF THE DEPRESSION WILL CONTINUE OVER THE FLORIDA BIG BEND...PANHANDLE...AND COASTAL WATERS...AS WELL AS SOUTH GEORGIA FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG ONSHORE WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE SOME COASTAL FLOODING ALONG THE BIG BEND COAST. TIDES ALONG THE COAST OF TAYLOR AND DIXIE COUNTIES WILL CONTINUE TO BE ABOVE NORMAL BEFORE DECREASING THIS EVENING. TORNADOES ARE STILL A POSSIBILITY THIS AFTERNOON IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. RESIDENTS SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER CLOSELY AND BE READY TO MOVE TO A SAFE LOCATION SHOULD THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP RAPIDLY AND WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING IN THESE TROPICAL CONDITIONS. OVERNIGHT AND THIS MORNING...EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN HAS CAUSED NUMEROUS FLOODING PROBLEMS ACROSS THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. THE HEAVIER RAINS HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...EXCEPT FOR DIXIE COUNTY WHERE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE STILL POSSIBLE. PEOPLE ARE REMINDED THAT LOCALIZED FLOODING CAN BE VERY HAZARDOUS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH WATER ON ROADWAYS. IN ADDITION TO THE FLOODING CONDITIONS...GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA FOR THE REST OF THE AFTEROON. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR HIGHER WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 45 MPH WILL CONTINUE ACROSS DIXIE COUNTY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 8:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun | 52 min |
| Aug 15, 11:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 51 min |
| Aug 16, 3:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Taylor, Wakulla | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 3:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 5:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Franklin | 32 min |
| Aug 16, 6:08 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Brooks, Thomas | 3 hr |
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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.