Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1992, 7:59 PM EDT for Forsyth County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 1992, 7:59 PM EDT (23:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 1992, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Forsyth County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 1374 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 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 272358 SVRATL GAC117-280030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 759 PM EDT THU AUG 27 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...FORSYTH COUNTY AT 755 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME NORTHERN FULTON COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST INTO FORSYTH COUNTY. TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN EAST OF ROSWELL AT 745 PM EDT. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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
Local storm report, Aug 27, 7:22 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 725 PM EDT THU AUG 27 1992 COUNTY..... FLOYD
Local storm report, Aug 27, 7:27 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
730 PM EDT THU AUG 27 1992
COUNTY..... FLOYD COUNTY
SOURCE..... FLOYD COUNTY 911
TIME....... ABOUT 6:20-6:40 PM EDT AUG 27 1992
LOCATION... ROME
TYPE STORM. TORNADO/SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
DAMAGE..... SIX MOBILE HOMES ROLLED OVER.
TORNADO DAMAGE REPORTED SOUTH AND WEST OF ROME.
QUOTE FROM 911 - TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN EVERYWHERE
ON CARS AND HOUSES.
INJURIES... NONE KNOWN.Local storm report, Aug 27, 7:32 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
730 PM EDT THU AUG 27 1992
COUNTY..... HEARD COUNTY
SOURCE..... HAM OPRTATOR
TIME....... ABOUT 535 PM 27 AUG
LOCATION... NORTH HEARD COUNTY
TYPE STORM. TORNADO/SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...TORNADO TOUCH DOWN
REPORTED BY HEARD COUNY CIVIL DEFENSE OFFOCAL
DAMAGE..... ONE MOBILE HOMES DAMAGED
INJURIES... NONE KNOWN.Local storm report, Aug 27, 7:35 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 732 PM EDT THU AUG 27 1992 COUNTY..... TROUP COUNTY SOURCE..... TROUP COUNTY 911 TIME....... ABOUT 555 PM 27 AUG LOCATION... NEAR LAGRANGE IN TROUP COUNTY TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE..... POWER LINES AND TREES DOWN INJURIES... NONE KNOWN.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 7:41 PM EDT, 18 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-272030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 735 PM EDT THU AUG 27 1992 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT...FLASH FLOOD WATCH OUT UNTIL 8 AM EDT FRIDAY AT 730 PM EDT...A 10 MILE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDED FROM FRANKLIN NORTH CAROLINA TO WALHALLA SOUTH CAROLINA TO CALHOUN FALLS SOUTH CAROLINA TO AUGUSTA GEORGIA. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORM WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS JUST NORTH OF ANDERSON SOUTH CAROLINA. ELSEWHWERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND WINDESPREAD LIGHT RAIN WAS INDICATED OVER MOST OF GEORGIA AND EAST ALABAMA. THE THUNDERSTORM WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS NEAR JASPER GEORGIA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 7:58 PM EDT, 1 minute before
GAZ006-008-009-280100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 800 PM EDT THU AUG 27 1992 ...TORNADO WATCHES NUMBER 778 AND 779 CONTINUE IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 755 PM RADAR SHOWED MOSTLY LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA. STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND EAST ALABAMA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AR 30 MPH. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE IN SOUTHEAST GEzORGIA AS WELL AS WESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 37 min |
| Aug 27, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas | 45 min |
| Aug 27, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley | 53 min |
| Aug 27, 4:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 38 min |
| Aug 27, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 59 min |
| Aug 27, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 61 min |
| Aug 27, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 38 min |
| Aug 27, 5:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Paulding | 54 min |
| Aug 27, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Pulaski | 62 min |
| Aug 27, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Meriwether | 37 min |
| Aug 27, 6:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 35 min |
| Aug 27, 6:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 36 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.