Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1992, 3:35 PM EDT for Barrow County, Walton County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 1992, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 1992, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barrow County, GA, Walton County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1042 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 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 KAHN 311935 SVRAHN GAC013-297-312015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 335 PM EDT FRI JUL 31 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATHENS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...BARROW COUNTY...WALTON COUNTY AT 330 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAWRENCEVILLE GEORGIA AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING NEAR WINDER. 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
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 1:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-010000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 145 PM EDT FRI JUL 31 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 8 PM... AT 130 PM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL...WAS INDICATED OVER A 15 MILE WIDE AREA THAT EXTENDED SOUTHWEST FROM MURPHY NORTH CAROLINA TO ROME TO LAFAYETTE ALABAMA. THE LARGEST THUNDERSTORM IN THIS LINE WAS LOCATED OVER ROME. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 3:01 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
GAZ001-312000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 300 PM EDT THU JUL 30 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTH AND PARTS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 8 PM EDT... AT 255 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR IN ATLANTA INDICATED BAND OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN GEORGIA THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR DAHLONEGA SOUTHWEST TO ATLANTAS NORTHERN SUBURBS AND CONTINUED SOUTHWEST TO NEAR NEWNAN. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE MOST STORMS INTENSE STORMS IN THE BAND WERE OVER COBB AND SOUTHERN FULTON COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA. PEOPLE IN THE ATLANTA NORTHERN SUBURBS AND THE CITY OF FAIRBURN SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ENCOUNTER STR8ONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAINS. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF SEVERE WEATHER MOVES OVERHEAD. ZALESKI
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 3:02 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
GAZ001>3-312000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 300 PM EDT THU JUL 30 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTH AND PARTS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 8 PM EDT... AT 255 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR IN ATLANTA INDICATED BAND OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN GEORGIA THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR DAHLONEGA SOUTHWEST TO ATLANTAS NORTHERN SUBURBS AND CONTINUED SOUTHWEST TO NEAR NEWNAN. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE MOST STORMS INTENSE STORMS IN THE BAND WERE OVER COBB AND SOUTHERN FULTON COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA. PEOPLE IN THE ATLANTA NORTHERN SUBURBS AND THE CITY OF FAIRBURN SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ENCOUNT<ER STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAINS. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF SEVERE WEATHER MOVES OVERHEAD. ZALESKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 1:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Gordon | 48 min |
| Jul 31, 1:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 48 min |
| Jul 31, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Peach | 50 min |
| Jul 31, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Putnam | 60 min |
| Jul 31, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pulaski | 34 min |
| Jul 31, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 33 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.