Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 18, 1995, 3:37 PM CST for Bay County, Florida. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 18, 1995, 3:37 PM CST (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 1995, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bay County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPNS 182137 COR SVRPNS FLC005-182230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION FOR TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 337 PM CST SAT MAR 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PENSACOLA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ...EASTERN BAY COUNTY AT 3:35 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN PENSACOLA INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER EASTERN BAY COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY kLIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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, 2:07 PM CST, 1 hour 30 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, 2:52 PM CST, 45 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, 2:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes | 63 min |
| Mar 18, 2:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton, Washington | 64 min |
| Mar 18, 2:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden | 66 min |
| Mar 18, 4:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Madison | 42 min |
| Mar 18, 4:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Leon, Wakulla | 48 min |
| Mar 18, 4:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson | 41 min |
| Mar 18, 5:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Taylor | 65 min |
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.