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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Tallahassee, FL

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

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 1995, 9:47 AM CST for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 16, 1995, 9:47 AM CST (15:47 UTC)
Expired
Mar 16, 1995, 12:00 PM CST
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 50 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 1995-03-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 178 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 1995-03-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 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
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

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, Mar 16, 6:08 AM CST, 3 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 16, 8:47 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEEscambia, Santa Rosa118 min
Mar 16, 10:47 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEWalton2 hr
Mar 16, 12:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBay, Walton115 min
Mar 16, 1:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJackson46 min
Mar 16, 2:55 PM CSTTornado WarningTAEFranklin35 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.