Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1995, 6:48 AM CST for Escambia County, Florida. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 1995, 6:48 AM CST (12:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1995, 7:15 AM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Escambia County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPNS 281245 RRA SVRPNS FLC033-113-281345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 648 AM CST TUE MAR 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PENSACOLA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ...CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY...CENTRAL SANTA ROSA COUNTY AT 640 AM CST A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN ESCAMBIA COUNTY FLORIDA NEAR BAY SPRINGS. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING RAPIDLY TOWARDS THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL EFFECT MOLINO...CANTONMENT AND POSSIBLY THE MILTON AREA IN THE NEXT HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL AND STRONG WINDS SO TAKE THE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 6:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Santa Rosa | 57 min |
| Mar 28, 7:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Okaloosa | 37 min |
| Mar 28, 11:44 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Escambia | 98 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.