Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 244, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1995, 4:12 PM CDT for Okaloosa County, Florida. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 1995, 4:12 PM CDT (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Okaloosa County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 2407 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 172113 RRA SVRMOB FLC091-172215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 412 PM CDT MON JUL 17 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE AL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ...SOUTHERN OKALOOSA COUNTY AT 415 PM CDT...MOBILE DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR MARY ESTHER. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTH AT 20 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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
Local storm report, Jul 17, 12:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1255 PM CDT MON JUL 17 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1210 PM DESTIN FL LIGHTNING STRIKE
7/17/95 OKALOOSA *** 6 INJ ***
SIX PERSONS ON DESTIN
BEACH WERE STRUCK BY
LIGHTNING. ONE FEMALE WAS
STRUCK AND THE OTHER FIVE
RECEIVED A SHOCK FROM THE
STRIKE. THE FEMALE THAT
WAS DIRECTLY STRUCK WENT
INTO CARDIAC ARREST AND
MEDICS WERE ABLE TO REVIVE
HER. THE OTHER FIVE
PERSONS WERE TREATED AT
THE SCENE. THE STRIKE
OCCURRED ON THE BEACH NEAR
THE HOLIDAY INN IN DESTIN.
A THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST
DEVELOPING IN THE AREA AND
THE PEOPLE WERE POSSIBLY
STRUCK BY THE FIRST BOLT
OF LIGHTNING.
WTNT33KNHC 0Local storm report, Jul 17, 1:09 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1255 PM CDT MON JUL 17 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1210 PM DESTIN FL LIGHTNING STRIKE
7/17/95 OKALOOSA *** 6 INJ ***
SIX PERSONS ON DESTIN
BEACH WERE STRUCK BY
LIGHTNING. ONE FEMALE WAS
STRUCK AND THE OTHER FIVE
RECEIVED A SHOCK FROM THE
STRIKE. THE FEMALE THAT
WAS DIRECTLY STRUCK WENT
INTO CARDIAC ARREST AND
MEDICS WERE ABLE TO REVIVE
HER. THE OTHER FIVE
PERSONS WERE TREATED AT
THE SCENE. THE STRIKE
OCCURRED ON THE BEACH NEAR
THE HOLIDAY INN IN DESTIN.
A THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST
DEVELOPING IN THE AREA AND
THE PEOPLE WERE POSSIBLY
STRUCK BY THE FIRST BOLT
OF LIGHTNING.Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.