Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 8, 1997, 6:12 AM CST for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 48 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
- Jan 8, 1997, 6:12 AM CST (12:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 1997, 7:00 AM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 434 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTLH 081214 RRA SVRTLH FLC131-FLZ506-081300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE TSTM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 712 AM EST (612 AM CST) WED JAN 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE TSTM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM EST (700 FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ...WALTON COUNTY AND FOR MARINE INTERESTS ON THE GULF COASTAL WATERS FROM THE ...DESTIN TO PANAMA CITY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST OFFSHORE OF WALTON COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF WALTON COUNTY BEFORE 630 AM CST. 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. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS OF 50 KNOTS OR GREATER... VERY ROUGH SEAS AND LIGHTNING. YOUR BEST COURSE OF ACTION IS TO SEEK SAFE HARBOR...BUT IF YOU ARE CAUGHT ON THE OPEN WATER... STAY BELOW DECK AND AWAY FROM UNGROUNDED METAL OBJECTS. MAKE SURE YOU AND ALL YOUR CREW ARE WEARING FLOTATION DEVICES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 7:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes | 30 min |
| Jan 8, 7:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 19 min |
| Jan 8, 7:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes | 10 min |
| Jan 8, 8:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun | 40 min |
| Jan 8, 8:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Liberty | 45 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.