Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1993, 7:49 PM EDT for Tift County, Worth County, Georgia. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 1993, 7:49 PM EDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1993, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 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, 11.8 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
- 1685 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 838 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KCSG 072351 SVRFFC GAC277-321-080045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 749 PM EDT WED JUL 7 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA ...TIFT COUNTY...WORTH COUNTY AT 748 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN EXTREMELY STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF SYLVESTER IN WORTH COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS NEAR THE TIFT AND WORTH COUNTY BORDER AND WAS MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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
Local storm report, Jul 7, 1:55 PM EDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 155 PM EDT WED JUL 7 1993 APPROX 110 PM EDT... ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF WEST PASS NEAR ST VINCENT ISLAND WINDS ESTIMATED AT 60 MPH BY FISHING VESSEL CAPTAIN. ALSO REPORTED EXTREMELY FREQUENT CLOUD TO OCEAN STRIKES AND VERY HEAVY RAINS. ALSO AT 109 PM THE FLORIDA HIGHWAY PATROL RELAYED THAT THE FRANKLIN COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPT PHONE SYSTEM WAS OUT OF SERVICE DUE TO LIGHTNING STRIKES.
Local storm report, Jul 7, 2:00 PM EDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 155 PM EDT WED JUL 7 1993 APPROX 110 PM EDT... ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF WEST PASS NEAR ST VINCENT ISLAND WINDS ESTIMATED AT 60 MPH BY FISHING VESSEL CAPTAIN. ALSO REPORTED EXTREMELY FREQUENT CLOUD TO OCEAN STRIKES AND VERY HEAVY RAINS. ALSO AT 109 PM THE FLORIDA HIGHWAY PATROL RELAYED THAT THE FRANKLIN COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPT PHONE SYSTEM WAS OUT OF SERVICE DUE TO LIGHTNING STRIKES.
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 2:35 PM EDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
FLC037-071940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 235 PM EDT WED JUL 7 1993 AT 230 PM EDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE EAST FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER GULF COUNTY FROM 5 TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF PORT ST JOE TO JUST NORTH OF WEWAHITCHKA. PEOPLE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. ELSEWHERE...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND REGION AS WELL AS OVER THE ADJACENT GULF OUT TO 50 MILES OFF THE COAST. NNNN AREA SUMMARY: ISOLATED MODERATE ECHOES-FREQ CG LTGSTORM DATA: BEARING REFLECTIVITY CG LIGHTNING MOVEMENT DEG NM MAX TREND FREQ TREND DIR SPD 043/010 4 + FREQ + NEW -- 332/003 3 + FREQ + NEW --THUNDERSTORM AT AIRPORT: YES ORF (WITHIN 30 NM OF AIRPORT) OBS TIME: 1815 UTCAREA SUMMARY: NO ECHOES DETECTED-NO CG LTGSTORM DATA: NO STORMS DETECTEDTHUNDERSTORM AT AIRPORT: NO ILG (WITHIN 30 NM OF AIRPORT) OBS TIME: 1815 UTCAREA SUMMARY: ISOLATED LIGHT ECHOES-NO CG LTGSTORM DATA: NO STORMS DETECTEDTHUNDERSTORM AT AIRPORT: NO
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 2:45 PM EDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
FLC037-071940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 235 PM EDT WED JUL 7 1993 AT 230 PM EDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE EAST FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER GULF COUNTY FROM 5 TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF PORT ST JOE TO JUST NORTH OF WEWAHITCHKA. PEOPLE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. ELSEWHERE...WIDELY SCATTERED4 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND REGION AS WELL AS OVER THE ADJACENT GULF OUT TO 50 MILES OFF THE COAST. NNNN
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 2:47 PM EDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
FLC037-071940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION FOR MOVEMENT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 235 PM EDT WED JUL 7 1993 AT 230 PM EDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE EAST FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER GULF COUNTY FROM 5 TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF PORT ST JOE TO JUST NORTH OF WEWAHITCHKA. PEOPLE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHWEST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND REGION AS WELL AS OVER THE ADJACENT GULF OUT TO 50 MILES OFF THE COAST. > NNNN
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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.