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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 12, 1995Walton County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 1995, 12:19 PM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 12, 1995, 12:19 PM CDT (17:19 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 1995, 12:45 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Walton County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 181 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1454 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 191 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
1454 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
222 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.8

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The text

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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, May 12, 12:13 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
FLZ014-015-121915-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL
113 PM EDT FRI MAY 12 1995

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR GULF AND FRANKLIN
COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM EDT/700 PM CDT...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE FLORIDA
PANHANDLE INCLUDING GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES.  THERE WERE SEVERAL VERY
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED OVER THE WEST FLORIDA PANHANDLE.  THESE
THUNDERSTORME COULD CONTAIN LARGE HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER
CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL BROADCAST
STATION FOR ALL FURTHER UPDATES OR WARNINGS.

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEGulf62 min
May 11, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEFranklin63 min
May 11, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEWakulla57 min
May 11, 10:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHolmes37 min
May 11, 10:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHolmes35 min
May 11, 11:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHolmes, Walton, Washington32 min
May 12, 12:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEGadsden31 min
May 12, 12:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAELeon52 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.