Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1995, 6:50 PM EDT for Tift County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 1995, 6:50 PM EDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1995, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tift County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 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
- 744 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 867 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KCSG 012250 RRA SVRCSG GAC277-012330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 650 PM EDT THU JUN 1 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA ...NORTHERN TIFT COUNTY AT 648 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF TIFTON. PERSONS IN NORTHERN TIFT COUNTY ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM AS IT MOVES TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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, Jun 1, 5:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 525 PM EDT THU JUN 01 1995 TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 1147 AM EST GRACEVILLE FL DIME SIZED HAIL. REPORTED 06/01/95 JACKSON BY GRACEVILLE POLICE DEPT.
Local storm report, Jun 1, 5:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 525 PM EDT THU JUN 01 1995 TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... 1147 AM EST GRACEVILLE FL DIME SIZED HAIL. REPORTED 06/01/95 JACKSON BY GRACEVILLE POLICE DEPT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early | 62 min |
| Jun 1, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker | 64 min |
| Jun 1, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dougherty | 59 min |
| Jun 1, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dougherty, Lee | 31 min |
| Jun 1, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Worth | 66 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.