Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 14, 1997, 11:53 AM CST for Bay County, Florida. It was in force for 52 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
- Feb 14, 1997, 11:53 AM CST (17:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 14, 1997, 12:45 PM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bay County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 419 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTLH 141745 RRA SVRTLH FLC005-045-141845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1253 PM EST (1153 AM CST) FRI FEB 14 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM EST (1245 PM CST) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ...EASTERN BAY COUNTY...GULF COUNTY AT 1148 AM CST...1248 EST... NWS DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING FROM JUST OFFSHORE OF MEXICO BEACH AND ST JOSEPH PENINSULA ONSHORE IN THIS AREA. PEOPLE FROM MEXICO BEACH TO PORT ST JOE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SEVERE... DAMAGING WINDS AS THIS STORM ARRIVES. THE STORM WILL ALSO MOVE INLAND FROM THESE AREAS REACHING 10 TO 15 MILES INLAND BY 1215 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.
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 Feb 14, 8:47 AM CST, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 14, 8:47 AM CST, 3 hours 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 925 AM EST FRI FEB 14 1997 MAIN AREA OF PCPN CONTG NORTH OF CWA ATTM. APPEARS ANOTHER BREAK IN THE ACTION. WARM FRONT THAT PASSED THRU CWA LAST NITE HAS RETREATED THIS MORNING AS MOST OF CWA UNDER NORTHERLY WINDS. TLH ABIENT TEMP AND DEWPT HAS DROPPED 11 DEGRES F SINCE 12Z OBS. EXPECT AS S/WV TROF DRAWS CLOSER TODAY PCPN WILL REDVLP LATER WITH ANOTHER WARM FROPA THIS AFTER NOON. CLD FROPA EXPECTED AT TLH AFTR 06Z SAT. #13
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 11:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gulf | 52 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.