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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 3, 1996Holmes County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1996, 5:18 PM CDT for Holmes County, Florida. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 1996, 5:18 PM CDT (22:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1996, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Holmes County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 79 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTLH 032219
SVRTLH
FLC059-032245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
618 PM EDT (518 PM CDT) MON JUN 3 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM EDT (545 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
 
   ...HOLMES COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
IN NORTHEASTERN HOLMES COUNTY EAST OF PITTMAN...AND SOUTHWEST OF ESTO
MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST. THIS STORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING LARGE HAIL.
 
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS OF 58 MPH OR HIGHER... LARGE
HAIL... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM... GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.

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 Jun 3, 2:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 2:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-GAZ121>131-142>148-155>161-040345-

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
339 PM EDT MON JUN 3 1996

MDLS AGREE ON TREND OF DIGGING UPR TROF INTO SERN STATES THRU 18 HRS
THEN BEGINNING TO LIFT IT OUT TUE NITE. AT SFC...WK TROF FM SRN MS TO
CNTRL AL WILL DRIFT SEWD BUT SHOULD HAVE SOME DIFFICULTY DISPLACING
SFC RDG ACRS NE GULF AND N FL...WHICH MDLS HOLD ONTO THRU PD. IN THE
SHORT TERM...XPCT MOST SHRA TO DIE OFF AS THEY MOVE SEWD INTO MUCH
MORE STABLE/CAPPED AIR MASS E OF AQQ-TLH-ABY LINE. SHOULD SEE THE
USUAL LIGHT FOG ARND AREA AGAIN TONITE. ON TUE...ETA DOES NOT SHOW ANY
ORGANIZED LOW LVL FORCING AND FWC POPS FROM NGM ARE QUITE LOW.
HOWEVER...SHOULD HAVE A DECENT SEABRZ BY AFTN WITH LIGHT S TO SW FLO
IN BNDRY LYR AND ASSUMING MID/HI CLDS OF TODAY MOVE AWAY. THIS SHOULD
RESULT IN AT LEAST A FEW TSRA...MOST LIKELY OVR FL PNHNDL. IN
FACT...WITH NW FLO ALOFT WOULD NOT BE TOO SURPRISED TO SEE SOME STGR
STMS OVR PNHNDL LATE IN THE DAY WHERE CONVERGENCE MAY BE MAXIMIZED.
ELSEWHERE...STMS WHICH DVLP TO W SHOULD PROPAGATE INTO AREA LATE IN
THE DAY. WILL ADVISE EVE SHIFT TO COORD WITH NXT SET OF ZONES.

MOORE

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.