Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 179, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1992, 5:31 PM EDT for Spalding County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1992, 5:31 PM EDT (21:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1992, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Spalding County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 902 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1373 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 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 KATL 102132 SVRATL GAC255-102215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 531 PM EDT MON AUG 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...SPALDING COUNTY AT 5:30 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS AT ATLANTA AND MACON INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED NEAR GRIFFIN IN SPALDING COUNTY. THE SPALDING COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED FREQUENT LIGHTNING WITH THIS STORM. AN OFF-DUTY EMPLOYEE REPORTED HAIL WAS OCCURRING IN GRIFFIN. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT NEAR 15 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM $HAS PASSED.
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
Local storm report, Aug 10, 11:44 AM EDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1140 AM EDT MON AUG 10 1992 COUNTY........HALL SOURCE........JACKSON E.M.C. (POWER COMPANY) TIME..........APPROX 3 PM EDT SUN 8/9/92 LOCATION..L....SOUTHERN PART OF COUNTY ALONG THE JACKSON COUNTY LINE TYPE STORM....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL..........N/A DAMAGE........TREES/LIMBS DOWN ONTO POWER LINES INJURIES......
Local storm report, Aug 10, 11:45 AM EDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1145 AM EDT MON AUG 10 1992 COUNTY........JACKSON SOURCE........JACKSON E.M.C. (POWER COMPANY) TIME..........APPROX 3 PM EDT SUN 8/9/92 LOCATIONN......WESTERN PART OF COUNTY ALONG THE HALL COUNTY LINE TYPE STORM....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL..........N/A DAMAGE........TREES/LIMBS DOWN ONTO POWER LINES INJURIES......
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 2:20 PM EDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
GAZ002-102015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 218 PM EDT MON AUG 10 1992 AT 215 PM EDT...A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA IN RABUN...HABERSHAM AND WHITE COUNTIES. PEA SIZE HAIL HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED IN RABUN COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN RABUN...HABERSHAM...WHITE...BANKS AND STEPHENS COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THESE STORMS FOR THE NEXT 2 HOURS. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Habersham, White | 60 min |
| Aug 10, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 69 min |
| Aug 10, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 42 min |
| Aug 10, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Turner | 65 min |
| Aug 10, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 48 min |
| Aug 10, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 42 min |
| Aug 10, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 50 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.