Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1992, 6:13 PM EDT for Butts County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 1992, 6:13 PM EDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1992, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butts County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 462 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 172214 SVRATL GAC035-172300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 613 PM EDT MON AUG 17 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...BUTTS COUNTY AT 605 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR IN ATLANTA INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING LARGE HAIL OVER WESTERN BUTTS COUNTY NEAR THE CITY OF JACKSON. PEOPLE IN THE CITY OF JACKSON SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY AS THIS STORM PASSES OVERHEAD. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. 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 17, 5:28 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
GAZ002-172230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 524 PM EDT MON AUG 17 1992 THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA ARE PRODUCING HAIL... A REPORT OF PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM RABUN COUNTY NEAR CLAYTON GEORGIA. RADAR INDICATES THIS THUNDERSTORM IS NOW IN THE EXTREME NORTHEAST CORNER OF GEORGIA. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM OVER WHITE COUNTY NEAR CLEVELAND AND ANOTHER ENTERNING DAWSON COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF8 DAHLONEGA SHOULD BE WATCHED CAREFULLY. THESE STORMS ARE CAPEABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUDY TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
Special weather statement, Aug 17, 5:41 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
GAZ002-172230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT . . . CORRECTION LAST LINE . . . NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 524 PM EDT MON AUG 17 1992 THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA ARE PRODUCING HAIL... A REPORT OF PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM RABUN COUNTY NEAR CLAYTON GEORGIA. RADAR INDICATES THIS THUNDERSTORM IS NOW IN THE EXTREME NORTHEAST CORNER OF GEORGIA. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM OVER WHITE COUNTY NEAR CLEVELAND AND ANOTHER ENTERNING DAWSON COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF DAHLONEGA SHOULD BE WATCHED CAREFULLY. THESE STORMS ARE CAPEABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUDY TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THESE THUNDDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
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.