Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1992, 7:25 PM EDT for Fayette County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1992, 7:25 PM EDT (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1992, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 126 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 102326 SVRATL GAC113-110015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 725 PM EDT MON AUG 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...FAYETTE COUNTY AT 718 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FAYETTE COUNTY. THE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FAYETTEVILLE. THIS STORM WAS SHOWING VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT. 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, 5 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.
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 7:20 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
GAZ005-ALZ012-102315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 718 PM EDT MON AUG 10 1992 .....STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA..... AT 715 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR OPELIKA AND CAMP HILL ALABAMA. OTHERS WERE IN GEORGIA NEAR COLUMBUS AND TALBOTTOM. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. PERSONS IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL AS THESE STORMS MOVE SOUTHEASTWARD. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND OR WARNINGS.
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, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 42 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.