Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1992, 11:58 PM EDT for Columbia County, McDuffie County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 1992, 11:58 PM EDT (03:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 1992, 12:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Columbia County, GA, McDuffie County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 760 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 820 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAGS 180359 SVRAGS GAC073-189-180445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA 1158 PM EDT MON AUG 17 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...WESTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY...MCDUFFIE COUNTY AT 1157 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE TOWN OF THOMSON IN MCDUFFIE COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAI>N. 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, 6:35 PM EDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
GAZ002-004-172330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 634 PM EDT MON AUG 17 1992 THUNDERSTORMS CONTUINUE OVER NORTHEAST GEORGA... THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUED OVER BAKNS... HALL AND STEPHENS COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN HALL...BANKS...HABERSHAM AND STYEPHENS COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS... STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTING... SMALL HAIL AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING ROADWAYS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS FOR THE NEXT HOUR. .
Special weather statement, Aug 17, 6:41 PM EDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
GAZ006-172330-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
640 PM EDT MON AUG 17 1992
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO JASPER COUNTY...
AT 640 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MACON SHOWED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF MONTICELLO...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...A LOT OF
LIGHTNING...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. RADAR SHOWED HAIL WAS OCCURRING
IN THIS STORM.Local storm report, Aug 17, 6:45 PM EDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 645 PM EDT MON AUG 17 1992 COUNTY........ HABERSHAM SOURCE........ CLARKSVILLE FD TIME.......... 555 PM EDT LOCATION...... 11/2 EAST OF THE CITY OF CLARKSVILLE TYPE STORM.... STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAIL.......... PEA SIZE DAMAGE........ ONE TREE FELL ONTO HOUSE...SOME DAMAGE INJURIES...... NONE
Special weather statement, Aug 17, 7:14 PM EDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
GAZ003-180100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 715 PM EDT MON AUG 17 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST OUT OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA... AT 700 PM EDT THE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BUTTS COUNTY ENDED. ONLY VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WAS REPORTED NEAR JACKSON GEORGIA. AT 7 PM OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY RADAR IN HEARD COUNTY AND FROM JONESBORO TO LITHONIA TO LAWRENCEVILLE TO BUFORD IN THE EASTERN METORPOLITAN AREA. STRONGEST STORMS AT 700 PM WERE NEAR BUFORD AND WEST OF LAWRENCEVILLE. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE ACCOMPANIED BY DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING... GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. THE RAIN MAY CAUSE SOME BRIEF STREET AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING EARLY THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, Aug 17, 7:31 PM EDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
GAZ002-004-180030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 728 PM EDT MON AUG 17 1992 A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS FORMED OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA THROUGH HALL...BANKS...FRANKLIN AND STEPHENS COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE ABOVE NAMED COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING ROADWAYS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE LOW PLACES FOR THE NEXT HOUR.
Special weather statement, Aug 17, 8:23 PM EDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
GAZ004-180130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 822 PM EDT MON AUG 17 1992 A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR LAVONIA SOUTHWEST TO MONROE CONTINUES TO MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDER- STORMS IN THE LINE ARE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. PERSONS IN FRANKLIN...HART...BANKS...MADISON...JACKSON...BARROW... WALTON...OCONEE...AND CLARKE COUNTIES SHOULD REAMIN ALERT FOR BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY SUR`FACE WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUNLIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING ROADWAYS AND OTHER LOW LYING FLOOD PRONE AREAS FOR THE NEXT HOUR.
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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.