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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Tallahassee, FL

October 4, 1995Walton County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 4, 1995, 11:19 AM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 4, 1995, 11:19 AM CDT (16:19 UTC)
Expired: Oct 4, 1995, 12:15 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Walton County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:18 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, 4.3 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-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: 1919 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 488 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 215 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 9.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTLH 041620
TORTLH
FLC131-041715-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1219 PM EDT (1119 AM CDT) WED OCT 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 PM EDT (1215 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
 
   ...SOUTHERN WALTON COUNTY
 
AT 1118 AM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER
THE NORTHERN GULF...ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF THE WALTON COUNTY COAST.
THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE TORNADOES AS THEY MOVE
ONSHORE IN SOUTHERN WALTON COUNTY BETWEEN 1130 AM AND NOON. THE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHWEST AT 45 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.
 X

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 4, 3:12 AM CDT, 8 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 4, 3:12 AM CDT, 8 hours 7 minutes before

ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-041345-

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...COR POPS 3RD PD
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
338 AM EDT WED OCT 4 1995

LETS KEEP THIS BRIEF. NGM APPRS TO BE CLOSEST TO OFCL NHC
GUIDNC SO WL FLLW THAT MDL THIS PKG. AVN AND ETA ARE MOVG STRM
SLOWR TO LEFT OF NHC TRAK. CURNT STRM MMT APPRS TO BE HINTING AT A
MORE NRLY TRAK WHICH WUD BE CLOSR TO NGM... W/LNDFL IN XTRM WRN PNHNDL
AFTR 18Z TDA... PROBLY CLSR TO 00Z THU.

LTL QUESTN ABT POPS 1ST TWO PDS AS TLH 00Z SNDG IS HILY SATURATD W/PW
OF 2.43. MAJR DAA AFTR 00Z ON NGM AND THINGS DRY OUT DRAMATICALLY...
BUT WL COMPROMISE AND GO LIKELY POP THU ALL AREAS... TAKING INTO ACCT
PSBL SLO DWN IN STRM MMT...EVEN THO IF NGM FCST PANS OUT CUD PRBLY
HAVE GONE ISOLD/WDLY SCT.

WL COORD WNDS W/NEW AND MIA SO THAT WE BLEND WITH CWF AND BIG BEND
ZNS.

ON FWC TEMPS... WL LWR HIGH TEMPS AND RAISE LOWS. POPS 1ST PD LK
GUD... HWVR THNK POPS DROP OFF TOO QUIK NXT TWO PDS... PARTICULARLY IN
LIGHT OF PSBL SLWR STRM MMT. CNSDRNG UNCERTNTY IN FCST... WL SMOOTH
THIS OUT. DISCARDING FAN GUIDNC.

FACIANE/#04

3 81/70/86 ++7
2 80/72/85 ++7
1 80/70/84 ++7

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 4, 11:46 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Bay	44 min
Oct 4, 12:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Walton	52 min
Oct 4, 12:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Holmes	53 min
Oct 4, 1:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jackson	52 min
Oct 4, 2:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Jackson	23 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.