Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1996, 1:09 AM CDT for Bay County, Washington County, Florida. It was in force for 66 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
- Apr 15, 1996, 1:09 AM CDT (06:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1996, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bay County, FL, Washington County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 2:00 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Caryville, 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, 6.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 866 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 Apr 14, 8:27 PM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 8:27 PM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-GAZ121>131-142>148-155>161-150730- AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 923 PM EDT SUN APR 14 1996 CURRENT TRW ACTIVITY TO W OVR SW AL/WRN PNHNDL MOVG ENE TWD WRN ZNS. XPCT TRW TO SLOWLY WEAKEN AS THEY PROPAGATE INTO SE AL/NW FL...BUT MIGHT STILL HAVE SOME SVR POT BEFORE THEY DIE OUT. CURRENT ZNS LOOK GOOD...BUT MIGHT WANT TO THINK ABOUT MAKING A MENTION OF TRW OVR FL BIG BEND ZNS LATE TONIGHT JUST IN CASE TRW MANAGE TO MAKE IT THIS FAR EAST. MOORE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton | 60 min |
| Apr 14, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton | 65 min |
| Apr 14, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Washington | 62 min |
| Apr 15, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun | 59 min |
| Apr 15, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Wakulla | 60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.