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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Tallahassee, FL

April 21, 1994Leon County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 1994, 7:01 PM EDT for Leon County, Florida. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 21, 1994, 7:01 PM EDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired: Apr 21, 1994, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Leon County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 213 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 389 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 788 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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, Apr 21, 4:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

FLZ016-017-026-212300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
459 PM EDT THU APR 21 1994

...STRONG STORMS IN WESTERN LIBERTY AND WESTERN LEON COUNTY ARE
PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...

AT 455 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STORM
IN WESTERN LIBERTY COUNTY SOUTH OF BRISTOL AND A STORM IN LEON COUNTY
NEAR BLOXHAM. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING PEA SIZED HAIL. THESE STORMS
WERE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE NORTH.

RESIDENTS OF LIBERTY...GADSDEN AND WESTERN LEON COUNTY OF NORTH FLORIDA
CAN EXPECT GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
STRIKES AS THEY MOVE TOWARD SOUTHWEST GEORGIA.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATREMENTS OR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, Apr 21, 6:06 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

FLZ019-028-212315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
608 PM EDT THU APR 21 1994

...THIS STATEMENT IS FOR PERSONS IN NORTHERN TAYLOR AND MADISON
COUNTIES..

AT 605 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN TAYLOR.  THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS DRIFTING
SLOWLY NORTHWARD AT 5 MPH.  RESIDENTS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM CAN
EXPECT LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL..FREQUENT LIGHTNING..GUSTY WINDS AND SOME
SMALL HAIL AS THIS STORM MOVES NORTH DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.

Special weather statement, Apr 21, 6:25 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 21, 5:24 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Escambia	36 min
Apr 21, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	25 min
Apr 21, 6:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Escambia, Santa Rosa	38 min

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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.