Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 11, 1994, 4:11 AM CST for Russell County, Alabama; Chattahoochee County, Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 11, 1994, 4:11 AM CST (10:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 11, 1994, 5:15 AM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Russell County, AL, Chattahoochee County, GA, Muscogee County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 554 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 472 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KCSG 111013 SVRFFC ALC113-GAC053-215-111115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 511 AM EST FRI FEB 11 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ...RUSSELL COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY...MUSCOGEE COUNTY AT 515 AM EST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING RUSSELL COUNTY ALABAMA. THESE STROMS SHOULD ENTER MUSCOGEE AND CHATTAHOOCHEE WITHIN AN HOUR. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS IS EAST. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Feb 11, 2:31 AM CST, 1 hour 40 minutes before
FLZ014-015-110940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 331 AM EST FRI FEB 11 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM EST FOR A LARGE PART OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...INCLUDING GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES. AT 331 AM EST A NEARLY SOLID LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM 60 MILES NORTHWEST OF DOTHAN ALABAMA TO THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE COAST 10 MILES EAST OF FORT WALTON BEACH. THE LINE THEN REACHED SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OVER THE GULF FOR WELL OVER 125 MILES. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM THE COAST TO AROUND 75 MILES SOUTH OF THE COAST. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND THE WEST HALF OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. AREA RESIDENTS SHOULD PREPARE FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND MONITOR THE NEWS MEDIA AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Feb 11, 2:38 AM CST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
FLZ014-015-110940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 331 AM EST FRI FEB 11 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM EST FOR A LARGE PART OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...INCLUDING GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES. AT 331 AM EST A NEARLY SOLID LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM 60 MILES NORTHWEST OF DOTHAN ALABAMA TO THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE COAST 10 MILES EAST OF FORT WALTON BEACH. THE LINE THEN REACHED SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OVER THE GULF FOR WELL OVER 125 MILES. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM THE COAST TO AROUND 75 MILES SOUTH OF THE COAST. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND THE tWEST HALF OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. AREA RESIDENTS SHOULD PREPARE FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND MONITOR THE NEWS MEDIA AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Feb 11, 2:53 AM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
FLZ014-015-110940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 331 AM EST FRI FEB 11 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM EST FOR A LARGE PART OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...INCLUDING GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES. AT 331 AM EST A NEARLY SOLID LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM 60 MILES NORTHWEST OF DOTHAN ALABAMA TO THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE COAST 10 MILES EAST OF FORT WALTON BEACH. THE LINE THEN REACHED SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OVER THE GULF FOR WELL OVER 125 MILES. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM THE COAST TO AROUND 75 MILES SOUTH OF THE COAST. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND THE WEST HALF OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. AREA RESIDENTS SHOULD PREPARE FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND MONITOR THE NEWS MEDIA AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Feb 11, 3:26 AM CST, 45 minutes before
FLZ016-017-026-027-GAZ155-156-157-FLZ011-013-111030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 425 AM EST (325 AM CST) FRI FEB 11 1994 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND PORTIONS OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST GEORGIA UNTIL 6 AM EST (5 AM CST) TODAY. AT 420 AM EST (320 AM CST) WEATHER RADAR AND LIGHTNING DETECTION SYSTEMS INDICATED A NEARLY SOLID LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING NORTH TO SOUTH ACROSS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE LINE OF STORMS EXTENDED FROM OVER 100 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF PANAMA CITY FLORIDA NORTHWARD TO THE COAST WEST NEAR SUNNYSIDE. FROM THERE THE LINE EXTENDED NORTHWARD ACROSS EASTERN WALTON COUNTY...THEN NORTHWARD INTO EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF HOLMES...WASHINGTON AND BAY COUNTIES IN FLORIDA. SHOWERS...DEVELOPING ALONG THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS LINE...WERE MOVING INTO THE EXTREME WESTERN PORTIONS OF CALHOUN COUNTY IN FLORIDA. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE EASTWARD AT AROUND 20 TO 25 MPH. AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS PASSED ACROSS AREAS OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE EARLIER THIS MORNING...BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS UP TO AROUND 45 MPH WERE REPORTED. FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED.
Special weather statement, Feb 11, 3:26 AM CST, 45 minutes before
FLZ016-017-026-027-GAZ155-156-157-FLZ011-013-111030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 425 AM EST (325 AM CST) FRI FEB 11 1994 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND PORTIONS OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST GEORGIA UNTIL 6 AM EST (5 AM CST) TODAY. AT 420 AM EST (320 AM CST) WEATHER RADAR AND LIGHTNING DETECTION SYSTEMS INDICATED A NEARLY SOLID LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING NORTH TO SOUTH ACROSS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE LINE OF STORMS EXTENDED FROM OVER 100 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF PANAMA CITY FLORIDA NORTHWARD TO THE COAST WEST NEAR SUNNYSIDE. FROM THERE THE LINE EXTENDED NORTHWARD ACROSS EASTERN WALTON COUNTY...THEN NORTHWARD INTO EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF HOLMES...WASHINGTON AND BAY COUNTIES IN FLORIDA. SHOWERS...DEVELOPING ALONG THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS LINE...WERE MOVING INTO THE EXTREME WESTERN PORTIONS OF CALHOUN COUNTY IN FLORIDA. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE EASTWARD AT AROUND 20 TO 25 MPH. AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS PASSED ACROSS AREAS OF THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE EARLIER THIS MORNING...BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS UP TO AROUND 45 MPH WERE REPORTED. FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED.
Special weather statement, Feb 11, 3:32 AM CST, 39 minutes before
FLZ014-015-111040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 425 AM EST FRI FEB 11 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM EST FOR A LARGE PART OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...INCLUDING GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES. AT 425 AM EST A NEARLY SOLID LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM 40 MILES EAST OF MONTGOMERY ALABAMA TO THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE COAST 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF PANAMA CITY. THE LINE THEN REACHED SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OVER THE GULF FOR WELL OVER 125 MILES. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM THE COAST TO AROUND 75 MILES SOUTH OF THE COAST. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND THE WEST HALF OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. AREA RESIDENTS SHOULD PREPARE FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND MONITOR THE NEWS MEDIA AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
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.