Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1992, 7:03 PM EDT for Carroll County, Coweta County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1992, 7:03 PM EDT (23:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1992, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carroll County, GA, Coweta County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 556 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 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 KATL 022305 SVRATL GAC045-077-022330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 703 PM EDT THU JUL 2 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN CARROLL COUNTY...NORTHWESTERN COWETA COUNTY AT 700 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN CARROLL COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF CARROLLTON. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. 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, Jul 2, 1:44 PM EDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS, GA
140 PM EDT THU JUL 2 1992
REF STORM ACTIVITY 7/1/92
COUNTY..... CHATTAHOOCHEE, GEORGIA
SOURCE..... SUMTER ELECTRIC CO.
TIME....... 230-240 PM EDT/1810-1840Z
LOCATION... THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY...
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
DAMAGE..... SCATTERED TREES AND TREE LIMBS DOWN ON POWER LINES.
SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES.
INJURIES.... NONE KNOWN.Special weather statement, Jul 2, 3:29 PM EDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
GAZ005-008-022030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 325 PM EDT THU JUL 2 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA... AT 323 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR PRESTON IN WEBSTER COUNTY AND ALSO NEAR PARROT AND DAWSON IN TERRELL COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. PERSONS INVOLVED IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SHOULD SEEK A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 4:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 405 PM EDT THU JUL 2 1992 AT 4 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE CENTRAL GEORGIA AREA. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS OCCURRING IN SUMTER COUNTY AND WILL MOVE ACROSS CRISP AND DOOLY COUNTIES BETWEEN 4 AND 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON. THEY WERE MOVING EAST AT 22 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. PERSONS NEAR THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR A COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR LATER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 4:39 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
GAZ003-022200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 440 PM EDT THU JUL 02 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA... AT 435 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AND GROWING STRONGER OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA. MOST OF THE STORMS WERE OCCURRING IN A BAND THAT EXTENDED FROM AROUND CEDARTOWN AND TALLAPOOSA EAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE ATLANTA METROPOLITAN AREA TO AROUND LAWRENCEVILLE AND MONROE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS CONTAIN A LOT OF DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND ARE DROPPING VERY HEAVY RAIN. STRONG GUSTY WINDS ALSO POSSIBLE. SOME STREET FLOO_DING IS LIKELY WITH THE HEAVIEST STORMS. RESIDENTS OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA...ESPECIALLY IN THE ATLANTA METRO AREA...SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THE APPROACH OF THESE STORMS AND TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 8:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 47 min |
| Jul 2, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 59 min |
| Jul 2, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale | 45 min |
| Jul 2, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette, Fulton | 40 min |
| Jul 2, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Fulton | 51 min |
| Jul 2, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 65 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.