Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Tallahassee, FL
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 10:02 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early | 58 min |
| Nov 24, 10:22 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Muscogee | 2 hr |
| Nov 24, 4:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Seminole | 30 min |
| Nov 24, 6:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 60 min |
| Nov 24, 6:57 AM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 63 min |
| Nov 24, 9:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 27 min |
| Nov 24, 4:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 37 min |
| Nov 24, 6:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 38 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.