Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 18, 1995, 3:54 PM EST for Gadsden County, Florida. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 18, 1995, 3:54 PM EST (20:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 1995, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gadsden County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 36 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 986 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 18, 3:07 PM EST, 47 minutes before
FLZ014-015-182300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 307 PM EST SAT MAR 18 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES... AT AT 350 PM EST...THE APALACHICOLA RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES...IN THE MEXICO BEACH AREA AND THE ANOTHER TO THE EAST OF WEWAHITCHKA. OTHER STORMS WILL DEVELOP THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. RESIDENTS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER AS THESE STORMS APPROACH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL BROADCAST STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES. NNNN
Special weather statement, Mar 18, 3:52 PM EST, 2 minutes before
FLZ014-015-182300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORR... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 307 PM EST SAT MAR 18 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES... AT AT 250 PM EST...THE APALACHICOLA RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES...IN THE MEXICO BEACH AREA AND THE ANOTHER TO THE EAST OF WEWAHITCHKA. OTHER STORMS WILL DEVELOP THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. RESIDENTS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER AS THESE STORMS APPROACH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL BROADCAST STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 3:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes | 63 min |
| Mar 18, 3:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton, Washington | 64 min |
| Mar 18, 4:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay | 53 min |
| Mar 18, 5:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Madison | 42 min |
| Mar 18, 5:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Leon, Wakulla | 48 min |
| Mar 18, 5:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson | 41 min |
| Mar 18, 6:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Taylor | 65 min |
| Mar 18, 2:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Muscogee | 35 min |
| Mar 18, 4:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks | 54 min |
| Mar 18, 4:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Thomas | 56 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.