Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 13, 1992, 6:00 PM EST for Bibb County, Crawford County, Georgia. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 13, 1992, 6:00 PM EST (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 13, 1992, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bibb County, GA, Crawford County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 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 KMCN 132301 SVRMCN GAC021-079-140000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 600 PM EST MON JAN 13 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON GA HAS ISSUE
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 13, 4:21 PM EST, 1 hour 39 minutes before
GAZ005-008-011-ALZ012-132315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 417 PM EST MON JAN 13 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 3 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA INCLUDING CHAMBERS..LEE..RUSSELL AND BARBOUR COUMNTIES UNTIL 9 PM EST TONIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. AT 415 PM EST COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR WAS INDICATING LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ALL ACROSS SOUTHERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHERN GEORGIA. MOST OF THE RAIN WAS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CLANTON TO CLIO ALABAMA INTO GEORGIA TO ALBANY TO COCHRAN AND ON EAST. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN ALABAMA WERE NEAR DOZIER AND 5 MILES SOUTH OF TROY..IN GEORGIA THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE JUST NORTH OF BLAKELY AND NORTHEAST OF ALBANY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE TORNADO WATCH AREA OF ALABAMA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER. PERSONS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD ALSO REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE FLASH FLOO WITH THE HEAVIER SHOWERS. POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER COULD ALSO BE A THREAT LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN GEORGIA. LIST0EN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jan 13, 5:39 PM EST, 21 minutes before
GAZ005-008-011-ALZ012-140045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 539 PM EST MON JAN 13 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 3 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN ALABAMA INCLUDING CHAMBERS..LEE..RUSSELL AND BARBOUR COUNTIES UNTIL 9PM EST ..TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 4 REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF WEST CENTRAL.. SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 11 PM EST TONIGHT. ..ALSO A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EST FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN GEORGIA. AT 535 PM EST COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR WAS SHOWING A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN ALABAMA AND WESTERN GEORGIA.. OCCURRING FROM CARROLTON AND MACON GEORGIA SOUTH TO OPP ALABAMA AND ALBANY GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF RICHLAND GEORGIA TO EUFAULA ALABAMA. MOVEMENT CONTINUES TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THESE WATCH AREAS ACROSS SOUTHERN ALABAMA AND GEORGIA SHOULREMAIN ALERT AND BE READY TO TAKE PROTECTIVE ACTION FROM SEVERE WEATHER OR FLASH FLOODING THROUGH THIS EVENING INTO TONIGHT. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
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.