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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 28, 1995Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1995, 6:48 AM CST for Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 28, 1995, 6:48 AM CST (12:48 UTC)
Expired
Mar 28, 1995, 7:45 AM CST
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Santa Rosa County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 55 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 1995-03-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2647 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 28, 12:50 AM CST, 5 hours 58 minutes before
FLZ014-015-281500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL
150 AM EST TUE MAR 28 1995

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

DENSE FOG HAS REDUCED VISIBILITY TO NEAR ZERO THIS MORNING OVER PARTS
OF GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES.  THESE CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO
PERSIST THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS AS WARM HUMID AIR CONTINUES TO FLOW
OFF THE GULF IN ADVANCE OF A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT.  ONCE THE FRONT
PASSES LATE THIS MORNING CONDITIONS SHOULD IMPROVE.

DRIVERS SHOULD SLOW DOWN AND USE LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS.  BE
ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AROUND SCHOOL BUS STOPS WHERE CHILDREN
MAY BE PRESENT.  MARINERS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR VISIBILITIES
APPROACHING ZERO OVER THE COASTAL WATERS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ANY FURTHER UPDATES.

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 28, 6:48 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEEscambia27 min
Mar 28, 7:54 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEOkaloosa37 min
Mar 28, 11:44 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningTAEEscambia98 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.