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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 3, 1994Holmes County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1994, 12:02 PM CDT for Holmes County, Florida. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 3, 1994, 12:02 PM CDT (17:02 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 1994, 12:45 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Holmes County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 79 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1994-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 50 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1994-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 185 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
50 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-179 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
185 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
251 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 12:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJackson57 min
May 3, 1:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAELiberty51 min
May 3, 1:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEGadsden48 min
May 3, 2:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEOkaloosa40 min
May 3, 2:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAELeon52 min
May 3, 4:16 PM CDTTornado WarningTAEOkaloosa29 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.