Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1992, 6:27 PM EDT for Gwinnett County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1992, 6:27 PM EDT (22:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1992, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gwinnett County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 67 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 102229 SVRATL GAC135-102315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 627 PM EDT MON AUG 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...GWINNETT COUNTY AT 6:25 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER GWINNETT COUNTY NEAR NORCROSS. A LOCAL TELEVISION FORECASTER REPORTED THAT HALF-INCH HAIL OCCURRED BETWEEN NORCROSS AND DORAVILLE AT 6:22 PM EDT. 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 7 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, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Turner | 65 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
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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.