Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1992, 10:24 PM EDT for Chattahoochee County, Marion County, Stewart County, Georgia. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 1992, 10:24 PM EDT (02:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 1992, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chattahoochee County, GA, Marion County, GA, Stewart County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 981 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 745 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCSG 280228 SVRCSG GAC053-197-259-269-280330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 1024 PM EDT THU AUG 27 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY...MARION COUNTY...STEWART COUNTY ...TAYLOR COUNTY RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM SOUTH EAST RUSSELL COUNTY JUST SOUTHWEST OF BUTLER GEORGIA AND MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DVO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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, 4:26 PM EDT, 5 hours 58 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WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 424 PM EDT (324 PM CDT) THU AUG 27 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR JACKSON AND CALHOUN COUNTIES OF NORTH FLORIDA...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, 5 hours 49 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, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Harris, Muscogee | 42 min |
| Aug 27, 9:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Marion, Talbot, Taylor | 55 min |
| Aug 27, 10:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Taylor | 66 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.