Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1994, 3:38 PM EDT for Leon County, Florida. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 1994, 3:38 PM EDT (19:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1994, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 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, 7.6 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.
- 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
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, May 3, 1:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
FLZ011-013-031810- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 106 PM EDT TUE MAY 3 1994 AT NOON CDT (1 PM EDT) STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER HOLMES AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO THE COUNTIES OF JACKSON AND CALHOUN DURING THE NEXT HOUR. HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. ELSEWHERE OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER SOUTH GEORGIA...THE BIG BEND OF FLORIDA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS.
Special weather statement, May 3, 1:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
FLZ011-013-031810- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 106 PM EDT TUE MAY 3 1994 AT NOON CDT (1 PM EDT) STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER HOLMES AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO THE COUNTIES OF JACKSON AND CALHOUN DURING THE NEXT HOUR. HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. ELSEWHERE OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER SOUTH GEORGIA...THE BIG BEND OF FLORIDA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS.
Special weather statement, May 3, 1:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
FLZ014-031830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 115 PM EDT TUE MAY 3 1994 AT 115 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN APALACHICOLA FLORIDA INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BEGINING TO MOVE INTO NORTH GULF COUNTY WEST OF WEWAHITCHKA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY OF THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY TODAY OF PRODUCING SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEST. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL BROADCAST STATIONS OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. NNNN
Special weather statement, May 3, 1:22 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
FLZ014-031830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 115 PM EDT TUE MAY 3 1994 AT 115 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN APALACHICOLA FLORIDA INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BEGINING TO MOVE INTO NORTH GULF COUNTY WEST OF WEWAHITCHKA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY OF THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY TODAY OF PRODUCING SEVERE WEATHER TO THE WEST. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL BROADCAST STATIONS OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 1:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes | 43 min |
| May 3, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 57 min |
| May 3, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Liberty | 51 min |
| May 3, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden | 48 min |
| May 3, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Okaloosa | 40 min |
| May 3, 5:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Okaloosa | 29 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.