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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 28, 1997Jackson County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1997, 12:26 PM CST for Jackson County, Florida. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Mar 28, 1997, 12:26 PM CST (18:26 UTC)
Expired
Mar 28, 1997, 1:00 PM CST
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

County Jackson County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 28, 12:30 PM CSTThunderstorm WindMarianna, 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 98 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1997-03-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1997-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
904 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 Mar 28, 9:00 AM CST, 3 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 9:00 AM CST, 3 hours 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1000 AM EST FRI MAR 28 1997

ST AND SOME FOG STILL LINGERING ACRS FA THIS MORNING...BUT SHUD SEE
CEILINGS COME UP DRG NEXT HR OR TWO. 88DS DETECTING WIDELY SCT SHWRS
DVLPNG ACRS EXTRM WRN FL PNHNDL AND SE AL MOVG ENE. CRNT ZONES LOOK
FINE FOR THIS AFTN...BUT THNK POPS FOR TONITE ACRS ERN SECTIONS OF FA
WILL HAVE TO BE REEVALUATED WHEN NEW MDL RUNS COME IN. OTHERWISE
EVERYTHING LOOKS FINE.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 28, 11:54 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEWashington36 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.