Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1992, 6:33 PM EDT for DeKalb County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1992, 6:33 PM EDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1992, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties DeKalb County, GA, Fulton County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 98 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 102234 SVRATL GAC089-121-102315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 633 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 ...NORTHERN DEKALB COUNTY...NORTHERN FULTON COUNTY AT 6:30 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AT THE FULTON-DEKALB COUNTY LINE BETWEEN SANDY SPRINGS AND DUNWOODY. 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
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 2:20 PM EDT, 4 hours 13 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, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 48 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.