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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 27, 1992Harris County, Muscogee County, Georgia

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1992-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1374 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1992-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEChattahoochee2 hr
Aug 27, 3:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAERussell61 min

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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.