Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1992, 7:20 PM EDT for Aiken County, South Carolina. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 1992, 7:20 PM EDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 1992, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Aiken County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 3:54 PM EDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
GAZ001>003-312100 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 400 PM EDT FRI JUL 31 1992 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN GEORGIA ARE NO LONGER UNDER A SEVERE THUNDER- STORM WATCH. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVE EAST OF THIS AREA. IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA BARTOW CARROLL CHEROKEE CLAYTON COBB COWETA DAWSON DEKALB DOUGLAS FANNIN FAYETTE FLOYD FORSYTH FULTON GILMER GORDON GWINNETT HARALSON HEARD HENRY MURRAY PAULDING PICKENS POLK SPALDING WHITFIELD IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA TROUP MERIWETHER . PORTIONS OF NORTHEAjST AND CENTRAL GEORGIA REMAIN UNDER SEVERE THUNDER- STORM WATCH 704 UNTIL 8 PM EDT.
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 4:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
GAZ006-312130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 430 PM EDT FRI JUL 31 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 704 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 425 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MACON SHOWED THUNDER- STORMS INCREASING OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA. STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM NEAR FORSYTH SOUTHWEST TO NEAR ROBERTA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS ~WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS... AND A LOT OF LIGHTNING. THE LARGER STORMS MAY CONTAIN HAIL. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO THE MACON AREA DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 4:31 PM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
GAZ001>005-312200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 430 PM EDT THU JUL 30 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST AND PARTS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 8 PM EDT... AT 425 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR IN ATLANTA INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR ATHENS SOUTHWEST THROUGH COVINGTON IN NEWTON COUNTY TO NEAR GRIFFIN IN SPALDING COUNTY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED BETWEEN COLUMBUS AND MACON. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE MOST INTENSE STORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTH AND EAST OF THE ATLANTA METROPOLITAN AREA. THEREFORE MOST OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA GENERALLY FROM ATLANTA NORTHWEST TO THE ALABAMA LINE IN NO LONGER UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH.
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 5:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
GAZ001>005-312200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 530 PM EDT THU JUL 30 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST AND PARTS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 8 PM EDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR ROCKDALE... BUTTS...PIKE...LAMAR...AND UPSON COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF THIS AREA. AT 525 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR IN ATLANTA INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM ANDERSON SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTHWEST TO NEAR MACON. STRONGEST STORMS WERE NEAR MACON AND NEAR EATONTON. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH. OTHER WEAKER THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA FROM CHATSWORTH TO NEAR ROME. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. OTHER STORMS WERE IN ALABAMA MOVING TO THE EAST AND WILL CROSS THE GEORGIA BORDER WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. THEREFORE SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTHWEST GEORGIA THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 5:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-312100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 535 PM EDT FRI JUL 31 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH RAMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 8 PM EDT... AT 535 PM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... 15 MILES WIDE EXTENDED FROM NEAR ABBEVILLE SOUTH CAROLINA TO SOUTH OF MACON GEORGIA. THE STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE LOCATED EAST OF ELBERTON AND SOUTHWEST OF CRAWFORDVILLE GEORGIA. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA...ESPECIALLY IN GREENE AND TALLIFERRO COUNTIES SHOULD BE PREPARhED FOR APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS AND SEEK INDOOR SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PAST. ELSEWHERE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST.
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 6:30 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-312100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 630 PM EDT FRI JUL 31 1992 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 704 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. A SMALL PORTION OF EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA REMAINS UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1100 PM TONIGHT.
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, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Walton | 40 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 South Carolina, 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.