Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 26, 1997, 7:18 AM CST for Bay County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 12 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
- Oct 26, 1997, 7:18 AM CST (13:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 1997, 7:30 AM CST
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bay County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:19 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 6:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1593 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 8.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTLH 261316 RRA TORTLH FLC005-261330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 818 AM EST (718 AM CST) SUN OCT 26 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM EST (730 AM CST) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ...SOUTHEASTERN BAY COUNTY AT 716 AM CST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF SEMINOLE HILLS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS UNDER STURDY FURNITURE IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. A MOBILE HOME IS NOT A SAFE REFU6GE FROM A TORNADO. MOVE TO A MORE SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING.
1 follow-up statement
000 TTAA00 KTLH 261325 RRA TORTLH FLC131-261330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 818 AM EST (718 AM CST) SUN OCT 26 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM EST (730 AM CST) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ...SOUTHEASTERN WALTON COUNTY AT 716 AM CST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF SEMINOLE HILLS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS UNDER STURDY FURNITURE IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. A MOBILE HOME IS NOT A SAFE REFUGE XFROM A TORNADO. MOVE TO A MORE SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 5:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jackson | 2 hr |
| Oct 26, 7:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Washington | 30 min |
| Oct 26, 8:05 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Washington | 25 min |
| Oct 26, 8:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jackson | 62 min |
| Oct 26, 9:10 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 50 min |
| Oct 26, 9:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes | 40 min |
| Oct 26, 9:36 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jackson | 39 min |
| Oct 26, 10:05 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 40 min |
| Oct 26, 10:36 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Jackson | 54 min |
| Oct 26, 10:48 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun | 42 min |
| Oct 26, 5:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Wakulla | 49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.