Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 1992, 5:50 PM EDT for Houston County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 1992, 5:50 PM EDT (21:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 1992, 6:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Houston County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 679 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCN 062152 SVRMCN GAC153-020715- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 550 PM EDT THU AUG 6 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON GA HAS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 620 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...HOUSTON COUNTY AT 545 PM RADAR SHOWED AN INTENSIFYING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF FORT VALLEY IN PEACH COUNTY MOVING EAST 12 MILES AN HOUR TOWARD THE WARNER ROBINS TO BONAIRE PART OF HOUSTON COUNTY. THIS VERY TALL STORM DEVELOPED SLOWLY BUT RECENTLY BECAME SEVERE INTENSITY AS IT WAS APPROACHING HOUSTON COUNTY. IT WILL BE NEAR WARNER ROBINS IN HALF AN HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSrINGS.
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, Aug 6, 5:03 PM EDT, 47 minutes before
GAZ005-062200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 500 PM EDT THU AUG 6 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTCENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 455 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTCENTRAL GEORGIA NORTH OF COLUMBUS. STRONGEST STORM WAS IN TROUP COUNTY NEAR HOGANSVILLE. THIS STORM MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES ARE LIKELY. STORMS WERE SHOWING SLOW...ERRATIC MOVEMENT...AND MAY CONTINUE IN AND AROUND THE LA GRANGE...HOGANSVILLE AND SURROUNDING AREAS OVER THE NEXT HOUR. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 5:26 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
GAZ006-009-070030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 525 PM EDT THU AUG 06 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING THROUGHOUT THE MIDSTATE... AT 520 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MACON SHOWED SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE LARGEST STORMS WERE 15 MILES WEST OF MACON AND 15 MILES TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MACON NEAR THE TOWNS OF FORT VALLEY IN PEACH COUNTY AND COCHRAN IN BLECKLEY COUNTY TO HAWKINSVILLE IN PULASKI COUNTY. THESE WERE VERY TALL STORMS AND CAPABLE OF STRONG WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MILES AN HOUR ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT GROUND STRIKE LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO FOR NEWS ABOUT 6THESE STORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 45 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.