Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1994, 7:08 PM EDT for Echols County, Lowndes County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1994, 7:08 PM EDT (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1994, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Echols County, GA, Lowndes County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 1963 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 618 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
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, Jun 9, 6:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
FLC001-003-007-019-023-031-041-047-067-089-107-109-121-125-092300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 601 PM EDT THU JUN 9 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHERN GEORGIA UNTIL 1100 PM EDT... AT 600 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...FROM ST SIMONS ISLAND GEORGIA WEST TO WAYCROSS THEN TO ALBANY GEORGIA. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORM WAS IN NORTHERN CAMDEN COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PERSONS LIVING IN SOUTHERN GEORGIA AND NORTHERN FLORIDA SHOULD BE ALERT SINCE THESE THUNDERSTORM HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. BOATERS IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN AND INLAND WATERS OF NORTHERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHERN GEORGIA SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR NOW.
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 6:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
FLC001-003-007-019-023-031-041-047-067-089-107-109-121-125-092300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 601 PM EDT THU JUN 9 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHERN GEORGIA UNTIL 1100 PM EDT... AT 600 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...FROM ST SIMONS ISLAND GEORGIA WEST TO WAYCROSS THEN TO ALBANY GEORGIA. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORM WAS IN NORTHERN CAMDEN COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PERSONS LIVING IN SOUTHERN GEORGIA AND NORTHERN FLORIDA SHOULD BE ALERT SINCE THESE THUNDERSTORM HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. BOATERS IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN AND INLAND WATERS OF NORTHERN FLORIDA AND SOUTHERN GEORGIA SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR NOW.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Nassau | 60 min |
| Jun 9, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Saint Johns | 49 min |
| Jun 9, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Baker, Columbia, Duval | 69 min |
| Jun 9, 7:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Clay, Saint Johns | 52 min |
| Jun 9, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Duval | 47 min |
| Jun 9, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Effingham | 42 min |
| Jun 9, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Evans | 42 min |
| Jun 9, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Tattnall, Toombs | 85 min |
| Jun 9, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Brantley, Pierce, Wayne | 49 min |
| Jun 9, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden | 58 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.