Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Tallahassee, FL

Issued

Jan 15, 1997, 10:08 PM CST (04:08 UTC)

Expired

Jan 15, 1997, 11:15 PM CST

In force

67 min

Issued by

NWS Tallahassee, FL

Area

Whole counties

County Walton County, 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.

000 
TTAA00 KTLH 160410 RRA
SVRTLH
FLC131-160515-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1108 PM EST (1008 PM CST) WED JAN 15 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM EST (1115 PM CST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
 
   ...WALTON COUNTY
 
AT 1005 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF
STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH ACROSS
OKALOOSA COUNTY. THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO WALTON
COUNTY BY 1020 PM CST AND WILL REACH FREEPORT AND DEFUNIAK SPRINGS
BETWEEN 1030 AND 1045 PM CST. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL PRODUCE
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS THE COUNTY.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO
ADVANCE WARNING.r

NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 15, 7:45 PM CST, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
845 PM EST WED JAN 15 1997

EXPC BAND OF SHRA WITH EMBEDDED TSRA TO MOV SLOWLY EWD ACRS FCST AREA
THRU LATE EVE/EARLY THU MORN AHD OF SFC CDFNT XTNDG FM SE LA TO XTRM
NW AL ATTM. NOT YET SOLD ON PROSPECT OF SVR TSTMS ACRS FCST AREA LATER
TONITE. HODOGRAPHS ARE IMPRESSIVE TO BE SURE WITH SR HELICITIES IN 350
TO 400 M2/S2 RANGE...BUT SOUNDINGS ARE UNDERWHELMING WITH NO CAPE AT
ALL ON MODIFIED 00Z TLH RAOB. ALTHO EXPC AT LEAST SOME DESTABILIZATION
AS CDFNT APCHS...DOUBT WE WILL SEE SFC CAPES GRTR THAN ABOUT 500 J/KG.
LACK OF INSTABILITY SHOULD PRECLUDE WIDESPREAD STG/SVR TSRA AS CURRENT
CNVTV ACTIVITY MOVS FURTHER E INTO INCREASINGLY MORE STABLE ENVIRON...
ESPECIALLY E OF AQQ RIVER. WILL KEEP OUR EYES ON ANY STG TSRA THAT DO
DVLP GIVEN DECENT SHEAR. CURRENT SET OF PUBLIC FCSTS SEEMS TO HANDLE
THE SITUATION QUITE WELL. EXPC ALL PRECIP TO BE E OF FCST AREA BY
SUNRISE THU.

MOORE

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.