Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 1994, 5:24 PM EDT for Taylor County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1994, 5:24 PM EDT (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1994, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Taylor County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 1106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 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 262124 TORCSG GAC269-262215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 524 PM EDT SUN JUN 26 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...TAYLOR COUNTY AT 522 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST 2 MILES WEST OF REYNOLDS IN TAYLOR COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 26, 12:10 PM EDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
GAZ156-FLZ011-261715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1212 PM EDT (1112 AM CDT) SUN JUN 26 1994 AT NOON EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AND MOVING RAPIDLY ACROSS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND INTO EXTREME SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. ONE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM EAST OF CRESTVIEW FLORIDA TO SOUTH OF DOTHAN ALABAMA. ANOTHER AREA COVERED MUCH OF DECATUR COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. ALL OF THESE STORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 TO 40 MPH. THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS VERY UNSTABLE AND CONDITIONS ARE SUCH THAT VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL. RESIDENTS IN THE VICINITY OF THE STORMS CURRENTLY ACROSS THE PANHANDLE AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD BE AWARE OF APPROACHING WEATHER AND SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AS THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION.
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 12:10 PM EDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
GAZ156-FLZ011-261715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1212 PM EDT (1112 AM CDT) SUN JUN 26 1994 AT NOON EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AND MOVING RAPIDLY ACROSS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND INTO EXTREME SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. ONE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM EAST OF CRESTVIEW FLORIDA TO SOUTH OF DOTHAN ALABAMA. ANOTHER AREA COVERED MUCH OF DECATUR COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. ALL OF THESE STORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 TO 40 MPH. THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS VERY UNSTABLE AND CONDITIONS ARE SUCH THAT VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL. RESIDENTS IN THE VICINITY OF THE STORMS CURRENTLY ACROSS THE PANHANDLE AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD BE AWARE OF APPROACHING WEATHER AND SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AS THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Worth | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Harris | 43 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.