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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 4, 1992Chattooga County, Floyd County, Polk County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1992, 4:09 PM EDT for Chattooga County, Floyd County, Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 4, 1992, 4:09 PM EDT (20:09 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 1992, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Chattooga County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Polk County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 182 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1992-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 213 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1992-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -63 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
213 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1020 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 4, 12:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON, GA
1230 PM EDT SAT JUL 4 1992

COUNTY.....  FIRS 009 BALDWIN
SOURCE.....  WASHINGTON EMC
TIME.......  245 PM EDT 7/3/92
LOCATION...  MOSTLY EAST BALDWIN COUNTY
TYPE STORM.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
HAIL.......  NONE REPORTED
DAMAGE.....  TREES DOWN ON POWER LINES

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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.