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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Tallahassee, FL

November 24, 1992Tift County, Worth County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 24, 1992, 11:51 AM EST for Tift County, Worth County, Georgia. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 24, 1992, 11:51 AM EST (16:51 UTC)
Expired
Nov 24, 1992, 1:00 PM EST
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Tift County, GA, Worth County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 136 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1992-11-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 458 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1992-11-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 231 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
458 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
610 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
231 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
395 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.0

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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, Nov 24, 8:58 AM EST, 2 hours 53 minutes before
FLZ003-005-GAZ011-241500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
855 AM EST (755 AM CST) TUE NOV 24 1992

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTH FLORIDA BIG BEND AND
SOUTHWEST GEORGIA UNTIL NOON EST...

LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING NORTHWEST JACKSON COUNTY
FLORIDA.

A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS IS APPROACHING JACKSON COUNTY FLORIDA
AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST PORTION OF THE COUNTY BY AROUND
830 AM CST.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS OVER 40
MPH...HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

PERSONS IN JACKSON COUNTY FLORIDA...ESPECIALLY THE NORTHWEST PORTION OF
THE COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AS THESE
THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO THE COUNTY DURING THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS.
Special weather statement, Nov 24, 10:20 AM EST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
FLZ003-005-GAZ011-241615-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1020 AM EST (920 AM CST) TUE NOV 24 1992

...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTH FLORIDA AND EXTREME
SOUTHWEST GEORGIA UNTIL NOON EST...

AT 1015 AM EST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THAT A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED ACROSS
NORTHWEST SEMINOLE COUNTY IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...THEN
SOUTHWESTWARD ACROSS JACKSON AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES IN FLORIDA...AND
ACROSS EASTERN WALTON COUNTY INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO WEST OF PANAMA CITY
FLORIDA.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING RAPIDLY EASTWARD ACROSS SEMINOLE
COUNTY INTO DECATUR COUNTY GEORGIA DURING THE NEXT HOUR.  THEY WILL ALSO
BE MOVING EASTWARD ACROSS JACKSON COUNTY FLORIDA...AND INTO WESTERN
CALHOUN AND GADSDEN COUNTIES IN FLORIDA DURING THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY
HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY HAIL.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 24, 10:02 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEEarly58 min
Nov 24, 10:22 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningTAEMuscogee2 hr
Nov 24, 4:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAESeminole30 min
Nov 24, 6:15 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEEscambia, Santa Rosa60 min
Nov 24, 6:57 AM ESTTornado WarningTAEOkaloosa, Santa Rosa63 min
Nov 24, 9:33 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJackson27 min
Nov 24, 4:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJackson37 min
Nov 24, 6:22 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEJackson38 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.