Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 24, 1997, 5:12 AM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 33 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
- Oct 24, 1997, 5:12 AM CDT (10:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 1997, 5:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Walton County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 2173 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 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 241011 RRA SVRTLH FLC131-241045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 612 AM EDT (512 AM CDT) FRI OCT 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 AM EDT (545 AM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ...NORTHWESTERN WALTON COUNTY AT 510 AM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN CRESTVIEW AND MOSSY HEAD MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN WALTON COUNTY NORTH OF MOSSY HEAD... TRACKING BETWEEN THE TOWNS OF PAXTON AND LIBERTY BY 530 AM CDT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE NWINDS 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 Oct 24, 2:21 AM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 24, 2:21 AM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 300 AM EDT FRI OCT 24 1997 WRM FRNT MOVES NWD INTO FA TDA AND S LLVL FLO WL INCRS GULF MSTR FLUX. AS THIS OCCURS... S/WV MOVES ALG NRN GLF COAST AND SWINGS THRU FA DURING THE AFTERNOON ACCOMPANIED BY PERHAPS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT SQUALL LINE EVENT YET THIS SEASON OVER FORECAST AREA. CONSIDERABLE UPR SUPPORT WITH 110KT 250 MB JET SHUD ENHANCE OMEGAS WITH BEST LIFT MOVG ACRS SE AL/SW GAr ABT 18Z. ATTM SQL BAND STARTING TO DVLP OVER WRN FL PNHNDL WITH MORE SIG SQL LN DVLPG ACRS S LA. LIKELY POPS WARRANTED IN ZFP FOR TDA WITH MAX TEMPS LIMITED TO UPR 70S WITH CLD CVR. #4
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 10:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay | 46 min |
| Oct 24, 11:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 32 min |
| Oct 24, 11:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun | 64 min |
| Oct 24, 1:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden | 47 min |
| Oct 24, 1:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon | 47 min |
| Oct 24, 2:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Leon, Wakulla | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.