Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Oct 26, 1997, 8:05 AM CST for Washington County, Florida. It was in force for 25 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, 8:05 AM CST (14:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 1997, 8:30 AM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 261403 RRA TORTLH FLC133-261430- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 905 AM EST (805 AM CST) SUN OCT 26 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 AM EST (830 AM CST) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA ...WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 800 AM CST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST SOUTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF CROW MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR AND ALSO BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS JUST EAST OF THE TOWN OF VERNON. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS UNDER STURDY FURNITURE IN AN INTEFRIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. A MOBILE HOME IS NOT A SAFE REFUGE FROM 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, 7:18 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Walton | 12 min |
| Oct 26, 7:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Washington | 30 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.