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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Tallahassee, FL

April 21, 1994Escambia County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Apr 21, 1994, 4:24 PM CDT for Escambia County, Florida. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 21, 1994, 4:24 PM CDT (21:24 UTC)
Expired
Apr 21, 1994, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Escambia County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 82 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 1994-04-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 389 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 1994-04-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 3:58 PM CDT, 26 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 21, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEGadsden, Leon25 min
Apr 21, 5:07 PM CDTTornado WarningTAEEscambia, Santa Rosa38 min
Apr 21, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAELeon29 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Florida, 1994Every tornado warning in 1994Tornadoes in 1994

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.