Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2002, 5:30 PM EDT for Liberty County, Florida. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2002, 5:30 PM EDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2002, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Liberty County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 1037 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1411 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
644 WUUS52 KTAE 032130 SVRTLH FLC077-032215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 530 PM EDT MON JUN 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL LIBERTY COUNTY IN FLORIDA * UNTIL 615 PM EDT... * AT 530 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 3 MILES SOUTH OF LIBERTY...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BLOUNTSTOWN... MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... VILAS...ESTIFFANULGA BY 540 PM EDT... CENTRAL CITY BY 550 PM EDT... ORANGE BY 600 PM EDT... WILMA BY 605 PM EDT... KERN BY 610 PM EDT... IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3025 8470 3037 8485 3031 8505 3004 8504 .END 16-DYE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Leon | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.