Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1995, 3:34 PM EDT for Calhoun County, Clay County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 1995, 3:34 PM EDT (19:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1995, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 2421 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 469 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCSG 111935 SVRCSG GAC037-061-112015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 334 PM EDT THU MAY 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA ...CALHOUN COUNTY...CLAY COUNTY AT 329 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST CLAY COUNTY MOVVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. AT 328 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RECEIVED A REPORT OF DIME SIZE HAIL NEAR THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON IN SOUTHEASTERN CLAY COUNTY. 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
Local storm report, May 11, 10:10 AM EDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL
1005 AM EDT THU MAY 11 1995
DATE OF OCCURRENCE: WED MAY 10 1995
TIME(EDT) CITY LOCATION STATE EVENT/REMARKS
COUNTY LOCATION
245 PM ST GEORGE ISLAND FL WATERSPOUT
FRANKLIN 2 WATERSPOUTS WERE
REPORTED BY SPOTTERS
RIGHT OFFSHORE. NO
DAMAGE REPORTED.
345 PM ST GEORGE ISLAND FL PEA SIZED HAIL
FRANKLIN NO DAMAGE REPORTED.Special weather statement, May 11, 10:54 AM EDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
FLZ014-015-112100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 1054 AM EDT THU MAY 11 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDETSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES UNTIL 500 PM EDT/400 PM CDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE INCLUDING GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES. AT 1050 AM EDT... THE WEATHER RADAR IN APALACHICOLA INDICATED SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED OVER THE INLAND COUNTIES OF THE FLORIDA PANAHNDLE. LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE ALL POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL BROADCAST STATION FOR ALL FURTHER UPDATES OR WARININGS. NNNN
Special weather statement, May 11, 1:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
FLZ014-111845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 150 PM EDT THU MAY 11 1995 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT TO MOVE OVER NORTHERN GULF COUNTY... AT 145 PM EDT...A CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER BAY COUNTY AND GETTING READY TO ENTER NORTHERN GULF COUNTY. THESE STORMS COULD AFFECT WEWAHITCHKA AROUND 215 PM EDT/115 PM CDT. THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL BROADCAST FOR FURTHER UPDAT0ES. NNNN
Special weather statement, May 11, 2:40 PM EDT, 54 minutes before
FLZ014-015-111945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE APALACHICOLA FL 230 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN GULF COUNTY... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES UNTIL 5PM EDT/4PM CDT... AT 230 PM EDT/130 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN GULF COUNTY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LINGERING JUST NORTH OF PANAMA CITY AND WILL SOON MOVE INTO NORTHERN GULF COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS AND VISITORS CAN CONTINUE TO EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND THE POSSIBILITY OF SMALL HAIL. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE OVER NORTH FLORIDA AND THE BIG BEND. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHERN LIBERTY COUNTY AND ALONG THE NORTHERN SHORE OF APALACHEE BAY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL BROADCAST 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.