Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Tallahassee, FL

Issued

Jan 16, 1997, 1:33 AM EST (06:33 UTC)

Expired

Jan 16, 1997, 2:30 AM EST

In force

57 min

Issued by

NWS Tallahassee, FL

Area

Whole counties

County Leon County, FL

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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TTAA00 KTLH 160636
SVRTLH
FLC073-160730-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
133 AM EST THU JAN 16 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH FLORIDA
 
   ...LEON COUNTY
 
AT 130 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE
OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING ACROSS THE EASTERN PART OF
GADSDEN COUNTY AND NORTHEASTERN LIBERTY COUNTY. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL
MOVE INTO THE SOUTHWESTERN CORNER OF LEON COUNTY BY 140 AM EST...AND
WILL REACH THE TALLAHASSEE AREA AROUND 150 AM EST. THIS LINE OF STORMS
HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AS IT MOVES EAST AT 45
MPH ACROSS LEON COUNTY.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO
ADVANCE WARNING.

NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 15, 8:45 PM EST, 4 hours 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.