Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 7, 1996, 5:48 AM EST for Taylor County, Florida. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 7, 1996, 5:48 AM EST (10:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 7, 1996, 6:30 AM EST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Taylor County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:48 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 7, 6:00 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Perry, FL |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 665 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Dec 6, 6:18 PM EST, 11 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 6, 6:18 PM EST, 11 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 700 PM EST FRI DEC 6 1996 NO SIG DEVIATION FROM THINKING IN PREVIOUS AFD... ONLY MAJOR MOD TO TAFS WAS TO BRING CIGS/VSBY DOWN A LITTLE EARLIER IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT WINDS ARE DYING DOWN ALREADY AND T/TD SPREAD ONLY 2DEG AT SOME STNS. CLRG SHUD START AFT 19Z WRN STNS AND AROUND SS ERN STATIONS. OTW NO SIG CHNGS. WSR88D INDICATING PCPN IN CSTL WTRS TRYING TO MV INLAND AND HAVE INCLDD SML POPS OVERNIGHT FOR SRN STNS. #4
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 7, 2:54 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 66 min |
| Dec 7, 6:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lafayette | 48 min |
| Dec 7, 8:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dixie | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.