Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 28, 1995, 2:01 PM EST for Pierce County, Georgia. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 28, 1995, 2:01 PM EST (19:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 28, 1995, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pierce County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 525 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 502 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 553 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
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, Jan 28, 12:16 PM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
FLZ020>025-029-035-GAZ164>166-501-281920- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 1216 PM EST SAT JAN 28 1995 ....TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 54 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5PM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA... BAKER,COLUMBIA,DIXIE,HAMILTON,LAFAYETTE,MADISON,NASSAU, SUWANNEE,TAYLOR AND FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA... CAMDEN AND CHARLTON... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE RAPIDLY MOVING EASTWARD OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL FLORIDA THIS AFTERNOON. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS TO BE VERY STRONG. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST NEAR 40 KNOTS. RESIDENTS OF THESE COUNTIES CAN EXPECT RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AFTER 2PM. STRONG GUSTY WINDS... HEAVY RAINFALL, DANGEROUS LIGHNING AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 28, 4:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Baker, Columbia | 46 min |
| Jan 28, 4:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Union | 24 min |
| Jan 28, 4:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Baker, Union | 35 min |
| Jan 28, 5:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Duval | 30 min |
| Jan 28, 11:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee | 32 min |
| Jan 28, 12:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Berrien, Coffee | 69 min |
| Jan 28, 1:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch, Ware | 49 min |
| Jan 28, 1:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Berrien, Lanier | 59 min |
| Jan 28, 2:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Clinch | 59 min |
| Jan 28, 2:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Lowndes | 43 min |
| Jan 28, 2:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Glynn, McIntosh | 66 min |
| Jan 28, 4:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden | 40 min |
| Jan 28, 5:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Pierce, Wayne | 27 min |
| Jan 28, 6:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Liberty, McIntosh | 28 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.