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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 16, 1995Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 1995, 8:47 AM CST for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 118 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 16, 1995, 8:47 AM CST (14:47 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 1995, 10:45 AM CST
In force: 118 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 68 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: 178 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -148 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1076 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPNS 161449 RRA
SVRPNS
FLC033-113-FLZ506-161645-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL
847 AM CST THU MAR 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PENSACOLA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS.....
 
IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
 
   ...SOUTHERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY...SOUTHERN SANTA ROSA COUNTY
 
  AND FOR BOATERS AND MARINE INTERESTS ON THE COASTAL WATERS OF
 
   ...ESCAMBIA  TO  SANTA ROSA
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY PENSACOLA RADAR 20 TO 40
SOUTHWEST OF PENSACOLA.  THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE ONSHORE
DURING THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS.
 
DEADLY LIGHTNING...HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINS WILL
ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MPH.
 
BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOUR IMMEDIATELY AND DON LIFE PRESERVERS
UNTIL THEN IF NEAR THESE STORMS...9
 
 
 
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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, Mar 16, 6:08 AM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes before

FLZ014-015-161615-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL
708 AM EST THU MAR 16 1995

...DENSE FOG OVER GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES...

DENSE FOG HAS FORMED OVER GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES AND
ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS...REDUCING VISIBILITIES IN SOME AREAS
TO LESS THAN 1/4 MILE.

BE PREPARED FOR RAPIDLY LOWERING VISIBILITIES WHEN ENCOUNTERING
AREAS OF FOG.  DRIVERS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION...ALLOWING ADDITIONAL
TIME TO REACH THEIR DESTINATIONS SAFELY.  DRIVERS SHOULD USE LOW BEAM
HEADLIGHTS.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 16, 9:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	2 hr
Mar 16, 10:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Walton	2 hr
Mar 16, 12:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Walton	115 min
Mar 16, 1:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson	46 min
Mar 16, 2:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Franklin	35 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.