Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1992, 7:57 PM EDT for Emanuel County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 1992, 7:57 PM EDT (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 1992, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Emanuel County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 177 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 KAGS 312358 SVRAGS GAC107-010030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA 757 PM EDT FRI JUL 31 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...EMANUEL COUNTY AT 750 PM EDT EMANUEL COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED TREES BLOWN DOWN NEAR ROUTE 15 AND INTERSTATE 16. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST SOUTH AND EAST OF THE TOWN OF SWAINSBORO. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 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 31, 4:31 PM EDT, 3 hours 26 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, 2 hours 26 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, 2 hours 21 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, 1 hour 27 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.
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 7:47 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
GAZ008-010045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 746 PM EDT FRI JUL 31 1992 ...LARGE INTENSE THUNDERSTORM OVER ALBANY GEORGIA... AT 744 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR IN COLUMBUS INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER THE CITY OF ALBANY GEORGIA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE ALBANY METROPOLITAN AREA...ALSO EAST OF ALBANY IN WORTH COUNTY...SHOULD BE ALERT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL FOR THE NEXT HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 7:57 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
GAZ006-009-010030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 800 PM EDT FRI JUL 31 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 704 EXPIRED AT 8 PM. AT 755 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MACON SHOWED MOST OF THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED EAST INTO EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA. A FEW STORMS CONTINUED IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA AROUND LUMBER CITY... MT VERNON...AND NORTHEAST OF SOPERTON.
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 |
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.