Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Tallahassee, FL
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.
- 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
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.