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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 27, 1995, 1:44 PM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 27, 1995, 1:44 PM CDT (18:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 1995, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Walton County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 707 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 876 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTLH 271845 TORTLH FLC131-271930- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 244 PM EDT (144 PM CDT) FRI OCT 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EDT (230 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ...WALTON COUNTY AT 142 CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOSSY HEAD FLORIDA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. MOSSY HEAD IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. 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 27, 9:18 AM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 27, 9:18 AM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-271800- AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1000 AM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995 WL NOT MAKE ANY BIG CHNGS TO CURRENT FCST. ST HOLDNG OVR MST OF SE AL WITH DNS FOG ALSO DISIPTNG (UP TO 1/2 MILE IN OZR). ST SHLD BRK UP SOMEWHAT OVR SE AL SO WL PHRASE BCMNG PRTLY SNNY. ALSO SOME SHOWERS ALRDY OVR PH AND SE AL SO AFTNOON PCPN NO LONGER APPLIES. WITH GOOD WAA MOST AREAS SHLD SEE TEMPS INTO LWR 80S SO NO NEED TO ADJUST MAX FCST. MODIFIED 12Z TLH SNDNG INDCTD GD INSTBLTY AND WIND PROFILE. STILL THINK THIS FNT WL BE A LTL MORE ACTIVE THAN THE PAST FEW. MOST SIGNIF PCPN WL PROB BE VERY LATE THIS AFTN OR MORE PROB THIS EVE. WL GIVE TONGHT'S POPS A LTL NUDGE. JW/#10
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 39 min |
| Oct 27, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes | 25 min |
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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.