Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1992, 5:10 PM EDT for Harris County, Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 1992, 5:10 PM EDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 1992, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Harris County, GA, Muscogee County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 1374 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Aug 27, 1:12 PM EDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Aug 27, 2:47 PM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
FLZ003-005-GAZ011-012-271945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 244 PM EDT (144 PM CDT) THU AUG 27 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM CDT FPR JACKSON AND CALHOUN COUNTIES OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE... ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHWEST GEORGIA COUNTIES OF SEMINOLE...DECATUR...GRADY...THOMAS AND BROOKS UNTIL 7 PM EDT... AT 240 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED TWO LINES OF THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES APART THAT STRECHED NORTH TO SOUTH FROM EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY THROUGH CALHOUN COUNTY AND EXTENDED SOUTHWARD INTO THE GULF FOR 30 MILES. THE LINES WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH AND THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH ALONG THE LINES AT 20 MPH. RADAR INDICATED THAT THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINS AND SMALL HAIL. PERSONS LIVING IN THE BIG BEND AREA OF FLORIDA AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 3:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
FLZ004-272000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 300 PM EDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST FLORIDA...INCLUDING GULF COUNTY...UNTIL 4 PM EDT... AT 300 PM EDT...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS HAVE MOVED INTO GULF COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREAxTENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF IT APPROACHS.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 4:26 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
FLZ003-005-GAZ011-012-272130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 424 PM EDT (324 PM CDT) THU AUG 27 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR JACKSON AND CALHOUN COUNTIES OF NORTH FLORIDA... ...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHWEST GEORGIA COUNTIES OF SEMINOLE...DECATUR...GRADY...THOMAS...AND BROOKS UNTIL 7 PM EDT... AT 415 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM THE GRADY COUNTY/THOMAS COUNTY BORDER SOUTH SOUTHWEST INTO THE GULF FOR 100 MILES. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH ALONG THE LINE AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY OF THESE STORMS SHOULD KEEP A WEATHER EYE OUT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS THAT CAN REDUCE VISIBILITIES...VERY DANDEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES...AND THE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AS TbHESE STORMS CONTINUE MOVING THROUGH THE AREA DURING THE NEXT HOUR. BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 4:35 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
FLZ004-272130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 430 PM EDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTHWEST FLORIDA...INCLUDING GULF COUNTY ENDED AT 4 PM EDT... AT 430 PM EDT...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS HAD MOVED INTO GULF COUNTY AND FRANKLIN COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF IT APPROACHS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Chattahoochee | 2 hr |
| Aug 27, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Russell | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.