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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Tallahassee, FL

October 3, 1995Bay County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 3, 1995, 5:11 PM CDT for Bay County, Florida. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 3, 1995, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
Expired: Oct 3, 1995, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Bay County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 112 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 739 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTLH 032210
TORTLH
FLC005-032245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
611 PM EDT (511 PM CDT) TUE OCT 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM EDT (545 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
 
   ...BAY COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
ABOUT 10 MILES TO THE NORTHEAST OF PANAMA CITY AND MOVING NORTH AT 20
MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS UNDER
STURDY FURNITURE IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE
PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. A MOBILE HOME IS NOT A
SAFE REFUGE FROM A TORNADO. MOVE TO A MORE SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Oct 3, 2:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 3, 2:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-040130-

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
333 PM EDT TUE OCT 3 1995

...RED ALERT!!! RAISE SHIELDS!!!...

LONG RANGE SCANNERS FOCUSSED IN ON HURCN OPAL OUT IN THE GULF.  ALTHO
SOME UNCERTAINTY STILL WITH THE EVENTUAL TRACK...IT DOES NOT TAKE MUCH
TO FIGURE OUT THAT HVY RAIN WL OCCUR OVR THE FL PNHNDL AND SE AL DURG
THE FCST PD. WITH THAT IN MIND...RECOMMEND AN FFA FOR THE ENTIRE FA
BEGINNING TONITE. HIGH WINDS SHOULD ALSO BECOME AN INCREASING CONCERN
ACRS THE FA LATE IN THE DAY WEDNESDAY. FROM LAST ADVY...RADIUS OF TROP
STORM FORCE WNDS WILL MOVE ACRS FA WED EVE. UNLESS A MAJOR CHANGE
HAPPENS DURG THE 400 PM EDT CONF CALL WITH NHC...WL RECOMMEND A HIGH
WIND WATCH FOR THE ENTIRE FA FOR 3RD PD ONWARD. SINCE WE ALREADY HAVE
THE HURCN WATCH...THAT DECISION IS MADE. A NEW PROB IS THE DVLPMNT OF
TORNADIC MINI-SUPERCELLS ACRS THE FL PNHNDL LATE THIS AFTERNOON
(SELS...ARE YOU LISTENING?). THE ONLY TRICKY PART FOR THIS FCST IS THE
WORDING AND THE EVENTUAL STORM TRACK.

AS FOR GUIDANCE...BOTH THE NGM AND ETA SEEM CLOSE ENUF TO THE PREV NHC
PKG SO THAT I HAVE NO MAJOR PROBS WITH THE STATISTICAL GUIDANCE...OTHE
R THAN POPS ON THU WHICH I WL INCR. TEMPS ON WED SEEM A DEGREE OR TWO
HIGH AS WELL...SO WL TAKE THAT INTO ACCT.

1) 74/84/75/80 89+9
2) 78/84/79/83 89+9
3) 76/85/78/84 79+9

MOORE/#07

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.