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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Tallahassee, FL

January 15, 1997Walton County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jan 15, 1997, 10:28 PM CST for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 47 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: Jan 15, 1997, 10:28 PM CST (04:28 UTC)
Expired: Jan 15, 1997, 11:15 PM CST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

County Walton County, FL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 15, 10:49 PM CST	Tornado F1	De Funiak Spgs, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 15, 5:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 181 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 753 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 408 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTLH 160431 RRA
TORTLH
FLC131-160515-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1128 PM EST (1028 PM CST) WED JAN 15 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM EST (1115 PM CST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
 
   ...WALTON COUNTY
 
AT 1027 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER EXTREME EASTERN OKALOOSA COUNTY NEAR THE COMMUNITY
OF DEERLAND. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO WALTON COUNTY JUST NORTH OF MOSSY
HEAD BY 1030 PM...AND WILL CONTINUE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH ACROSS THE
NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY THROUGH 1100 PM CST. THE STORM WILL REACH
LIBERTY BY 1100 PM CST.
 
DO NOT USE YOUR VEHICLE TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. IF YOU ARE
CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE YOUR CAR AND GO TO A
STRONG BUILDING.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 15, 10:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Walton	67 min
Jan 15, 10:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Washington	46 min
Jan 15, 11:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay	55 min
Jan 15, 11:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TAE	Washington	51 min
Jan 15, 11:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Jackson	62 min
Jan 16, 12:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Liberty	67 min
Jan 16, 12:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Leon	57 min
Jan 16, 1:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Madison, Taylor	58 min

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.