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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Jacksonville, FL

June 14, 1992Liberty County, McIntosh County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1992, 5:10 PM EDT for Liberty County, McIntosh County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 1992, 5:10 PM EDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1992, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Liberty County, GA, McIntosh County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 107 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 721 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSAV 142116
TORSAV
GAC179-191-142200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAVANNAH GA
510 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAVANNAH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...EASTERN LIBERTY COUNTY...EASTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY
 
  AND FOR MARINE INTERESTS ON THE COASTAL WATERS FROM
 
   ...SAPELO SOUND  TO  ST. CATHERINES SOUND
 
AT 5:10 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN WAYCROSS INDICATED A POSSIBLE
TORNADO IN EASTERN MCINTOSH COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM CAUSING THE
TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.  THE TORNADO WAS
JUST TO THE NORTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF EULONIA.  MARINERS IN THIS AREA
SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 14, 2:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

FLZ008-007-009-142025-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
225 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 1992

AT 220 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM LAKE CITY AND LAKE BUTLER NORTHEAST
THROUGH JACKSONVILLE AND ON INTO SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL
LIKELY CAUSE STRONG WIND GUSTS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE HAIL FOR THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS.

MARINE INTEREST IN THE COASTAL WATERS OFF AMELIA ISLAND AND FERNANDINA
BEACH SOUTH TO MAYPORT BE AWARE OF THE THREAT OF HIGH WINDS AND ROUGH
SEAS WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS...BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE HARBOR IF
THREATENING CONDITIONS ARE SIGHTED.

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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.