Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1992, 4:32 PM EST for Lee County, Sumter County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 1992, 4:32 PM EST (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1992, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lee County, GA, Sumter County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCSG 302136 SVRCSG GAC177-261-302215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 432 PM EST MON MAR 30 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA ...NORTHERN LEE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN SUMTER COUNTY AT 430 PM EST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE SUMTER/LEE COUNTY LINE...JUST SOUTH OF PLAINS GEORGIA. THE STORM WAS MOVING GENERALLY EAST AT NEAR 50 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WI6ND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, Mar 30, 11:42 AM EST, 4 hours 50 minutes before
FLZ004-301730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FLORIDA 1140 AM EST MON MAR 30 1992 AT 1140 AM...THERE WAS A LARGE AREA OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 20 MILES WEST OF APALACHICOLA FLORIDA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS OF GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES AS WELL AS MARINE INTEREST SHOULD PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER. LOOK TO THE SOUTHWEST TO WATCH FOR THE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD HAVE STRONG WINDS...HAIL...LIGHTENING ...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE APPROACHING LAND BETWEEN 1200 AND 1230 PM EST.
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 12:42 PM EST, 3 hours 50 minutes before
FLZ004-301830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FLORIDA 1240 PM EST MON MAR 30 1992 AT 1235 PM...THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED TO THE EAST OF GULF COUNTY AND WILL BE EAST OF FRANKLIN COUNTY BY 1 PM EST. MARINE INTEREST ALONG FRANKLIN COUNTY SHOULD PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER UNTIL 130 PM. LOOK TO THE SOUTHWEST TO WATCH FOR THE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. THE THUNwDERSTORMS COULD HAVE STRONG WINDS...HAIL...LIGHTNING ...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 2:03 PM EST, 2 hours 29 minutes before
FLZ003-005-006-007-GAZ011-012-302000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 205 PM EST (105 PM CST) MON MAR 30 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTH GEORGIA UNTIL 7 PM EST (6 PM CST) THIS EVENING. ..AT 202 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE BIG BEND AREA OF FLORIDA AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM WESTERN SEMINOLE COUNTY GEORGIA ACROSS DECATUR AND THOMAS COUNTIES AND INTO LEON AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES IN FLORIDA. THIS ACTIVITY IS MOVING SLOWLY TOWARD THE NORTHEAST. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 3:01 PM EST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
FLZ003-005-006-007-GAZ011-012-302100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 303 PM EST (203 PM CST) MON MAR 30 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTH FLORIDA AND SOUTH GEORGIA UNTIL 7 PM EST (6 PM CST)... AT 300 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE BIG BEND AND PANHANDLE AREA OF FLORIDA AND SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER GRADY..THOMAS..AND SEMINOLE COUNTIES IN GEORGIA AND IN LEON AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES IN FLORIDA. ANOTHER SMALL AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN THE PANHANDLE NORTHEAST OF CRESTVIEW FLORIDA. THE ACTIVITY WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 225 TO 30 MPH. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 3:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Randolph, Stewart, Webster | 50 min |
| Mar 30, 4:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Miller, Mitchell | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 5:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 6:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Randolph, Terrell | 60 min |
Nearby
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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.