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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Jacksonville, FL

January 28, 1995Pierce County, Georgia

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-01-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 134 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-01-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 502 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 28, 4:29 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBaker, Columbia46 min
Jan 28, 4:51 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXUnion24 min
Jan 28, 4:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBaker, Union35 min
Jan 28, 5:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXDuval30 min
Jan 28, 11:13 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCoffee32 min
Jan 28, 12:51 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAtkinson, Berrien, Coffee69 min
Jan 28, 1:26 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXClinch, Ware49 min
Jan 28, 1:46 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXBerrien, Lanier59 min
Jan 28, 2:01 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXAtkinson, Clinch59 min
Jan 28, 2:17 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXLowndes43 min
Jan 28, 2:54 PM ESTTornado WarningJAXGlynn, McIntosh66 min
Jan 28, 4:20 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXCamden40 min
Jan 28, 5:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXPierce, Wayne27 min
Jan 28, 6:17 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXLiberty, McIntosh28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.