Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1992, 7:27 PM EDT for Liberty County, Long County, Georgia. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 1992, 7:27 PM EDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1992, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1915 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 830 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAV 252328 SVRSAV GAC179-183-260030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAVANNAH GA 727 PM EDT THU JUN 25 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAVANNAH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA ...EASTERN LIBERTY COUNTY...EASTERN LONG COUNTY AT 5:20 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST LONG COUNTY JUST EAST OF DOCTORTOWN. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH AND SHOULD BE MOVING INTO LIBERTY COUNTY JUST EAST OF ALLENHURST BT 6 PM. STAY TUNED TO THE NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TV OR RADIO STATION FOR UPDATES AS THEY ARE NEEDED ON THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR* OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 6:28 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
FLZ008-009-260030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 627 PM EDT THU JUN 25 1992 AT 620 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED A AREA OF RAIN WITH SOME THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN FROM OCALA AND PALATKA NORTH THROUGH THE JACKSONVILLE AREA INTO SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND OUT OVER THE COASTAL WATERS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVED THROUGH ST AUGUSTINE AND DAYTONA BEACH RAIN TOTALS GREATHER THAN 2 INCHES WERE COMMON. ALSO THE WIND HAS GUSTED TO 39 MILES AN HOUR AT THE JACKSONVILLE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT DURING THE PAST HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WILL CAUSE TEMPORARY FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS...LOW LYING AREAS...DRAINAGE DITCHES...AND UNDERPASSES FOR THE NEXT TWO HOURS. MARINE INTEREST OPERATING IN THE COASTAL WATERS OFF FERNANDINA BEACH SOUTH TO ST AUGUSTINE BE AWARE OF THE THREAT OF HIGH WINDS AND ROUGH SEAS WITH THESE, THUNDERSTORMS. BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE HARBOR.
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.