Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1992, 6:54 PM EDT for Bibb County, Georgia. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 1992, 6:54 PM EDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1992, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bibb County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1198 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 731 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 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 222255 SVRMCN GAC021-230000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 654 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON GA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...BIBB COUNTY AT 655 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTRM WAS NEAR MACN MVING NRTHEAST AT 15 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, Jul 22, 2:57 PM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
GAZ003-222000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 300 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1992 AT 255 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER DOWNTOWN ATLANTA NORTHWARD TOWARD SANDY SPRINGS IN NORTH FULTON COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOWED ONLY A SLOW EASTWARD DRIFT WHICH WILL TAKE IT TOWARD WESTERN DEKALB COUNTY. WITH THE SLOW MOVEMENT AND HEAVY RAIN...FLOODING OF STREETS AND INTERSECTIONS...XESPECIALLY THE DOWNTOWN CONNECTOR AND OTHER INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS NORTH OF ATLANTA IS LIKELY.
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 4:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
GAZ003-222200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 420 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1992 AT 415 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA. STRONGEST STORMS WERE NEAR DOUGLASVILLE...WEST OF MARIETTA AND BETWEEN GRIFFIN AND MCDONOUGH. STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. ADDITIONAL STORMS COULD DEVELOP IN THE AREA THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THE STRONGEST STORMS. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS...LOCAL STREET AND HIGHWAY FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE.
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 6:16 PM EDT, 38 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-222315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 615 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 610 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MACON SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA. ONE STORM AT THE MACON AIRPORT WAS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND A WIND GUST TO 43 MPH AT 602 PM. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. IN ADDITION TO HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING A LOT OF LIGHTNING. SMALL HAIL WAS POSSIBLE IN THE LARGER STORMS.
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 6:28 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
GAZ005-011-222330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 627 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAM AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 625 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT COLUMBUS SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDESTORMS INCREASING OVER PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED AT COLUMBUS GEORGIA IN MUSCOGEE COUNTY GEORGIA. REMAIN ALERT FOR THESE APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE NEXT HOURS OR SO. AS THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL.
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 6:30 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
GAZ005-ALZ011-222330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 627 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAM AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 625 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT COLUMBUS SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDESTORMS INCREASING OVER PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED AT COLUMBUS GEORGIA IN MUSCOGEE COUNTY GEORGIA. REMAIN ALERT FOR THESE APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE NEXT HOURS OR SO. AS THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL.
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 6:43 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-222315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 645 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER MACON AND WARNER ROBINS... AT 640 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MACON SHOWED SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHEAST THROUGH MACON AND WARNER ROBINS AND SURROUNDING AREAS. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS... AND A LOT OF LIGHTNING. OVER ONE INCH OF RAIN FELL AT THE MACON AIRPORT BETWEEN 6 AND 630 PM... AND HEAVY RAIN WAS CONTINUING TO FALL. HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS TO FLOOD. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT DRIVING IN THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND WATCH OUT FOR WATER COVERED ROADS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Richmond | 55 min |
| Jul 22, 7:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bibb | 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.