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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 9, 1994Baker County, Early County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1994, 7:42 PM EDT for Baker County, Early County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1994, 7:42 PM EDT (23:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1994, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Baker County, GA, Early County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 109 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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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, 6:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

FLZ017-018-027-092315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
612 PM EDT THU JUN 9 1994

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT FOR PARTS OF THE
FLORIDA BIG BEND AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP RAPIDLY ACROSS THE FLORIDA BIG BEND...

AT 6 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED RAPIDLY INTENSIFYING
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS LEON...WAKULLA...AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES IN THE
FLORIDA BIG BEND. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG THE LEON
COUNTY/WAKULLA COUNTY LINE...4 MILES WEST AND 3 MILES EAST OF
WOODVILLE.

THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO STRENGTHEN BETWEEN 6 PM AND 7 PM EDT. THE
STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG
WIND GUSTS AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

RESIDENTS OF THE EFFECTED COUNTIES SHOULD WATCH THE WEATHER FOR RAPIDLY
CHANGING CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 6:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

FLZ017-018-027-092315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
612 PM EDT THU JUN 9 1994

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT FOR PARTS OF THE
FLORIDA BIG BEND AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP RAPIDLY ACROSS THE FLORIDA BIG BEND...

AT 6 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED RAPIDLY INTENSIFYING
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS LEON...WAKULLA...AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES IN THE
FLORIDA BIG BEND. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG THE LEON
COUNTY/WAKULLA COUNTY LINE...4 MILES WEST AND 3 MILES EAST OF
WOODVILLE.

THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO STRENGTHEN BETWEEN 6 PM AND 7 PM EDT. THE
STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG
WIND GUSTS AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

RESIDENTS OF THE EFFECTED COUNTIES SHOULD WATCH THE WEATHER FOR RAPIDLY
CHANGING CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 7:10 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 7:11 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 7:17 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Wakulla	49 min
Jun 9, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Macon	28 min
Jun 9, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Quitman	28 min
Jun 9, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Randolph	28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1994 Every 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.