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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 10, 1992Turner County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1992, 6:25 PM EDT for Turner County, Georgia. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 10, 1992, 6:25 PM EDT (22:25 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 1992, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Turner County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1595 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 934 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMCN 102226
SVRMCN
GAC287-102330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
625 PM EDT MON AUG 10 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON GA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...TURNER COUNTY
 
AT 624 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR ASHBURN...
DRIFTING SLOWLY SOUTHWEST.
 
 
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, Aug 10, 2:20 PM EDT, 4 hours 5 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, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Spalding	44 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

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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.