Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 214, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 22, 1992, 2:26 PM EST for Meriwether County, Pike County, Georgia. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 22, 1992, 2:26 PM EST (19:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 22, 1992, 3:30 PM EST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Meriwether County, GA, Pike County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 484 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 221928 SVRATL GAC151-247-199-231-222030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 226 PM EST SUN NOV 22 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...EASTERN HENRY COUNTY...ROCKDALE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...MERIWETHER COUNTY...PIKE COUNTY WEATHER RADAR AT 225 PM INICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR CONYERS IN ROCKDALE COUNTY TO SOUTHWEST OF MANCHESTER IN MERIWETHER COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE O CCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Nov 22, 1:43 PM EST, 43 minutes before
GAZ002-004-222045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 140 PM EST SUN NOV 22 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALL COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA EFFECTIVE UNTIL 8 PM EST THIS SUNDAY EVENING... A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS GEORGIA. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER AND TORNADOES HAS ACCOMPANIED THIS LINE AS IT MOVED ACROSS THE REGION. PERSONS ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION QUICKLY SHOULD THUNDER- STORMS APPROACH YOU. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY A2ND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SAFE SHELTER AT THE FIRST SIGN OF APPROACHING SEVERE WEATHER. ...STAY TUNED TO N.O.A.A. WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR ANY ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS...
Special weather statement, Nov 22, 2:05 PM EST, 21 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-222000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 200 PM EST SUN SEP 27 1992 ...TORNADO WATCHES #918 AND #919 ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EST FOR ALL OF CENTRAL...AND PARTS OF NORTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. ...TORNADO WATCH #916 EXPIRED AT 200 PM EST. AT 200 PM MACON RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM DAHLONEGA SOUTH TO ATLANTA...GRIFFIN...AND COLUMBUS. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS IN WEST AND NORTH GEORGIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE WEST PART OF THE STATE ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PRESENTLY ONLY SCATTERED PATCHES` OF LIGHT RAIN WERE INDICATED IN CENTRAL GEORGIA. REMAIN ALERT FOR DEVELOPING WEATHER AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Local storm report, Nov 22, 2:10 PM EST, 16 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 210 PM EST SUN NOV 22 1992 COUNTY........ TOWNS SOURCE........ HIWASSEE PD TIME.......... 1:45 PM EST LOCATION...... COUNTY WIDE TYPE STORM.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL.......... NONE ATTM DAMAGE........ NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN INJURIES...... NONE ATTM WARNING....... TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT ] d
Local storm report, Nov 22, 2:11 PM EST, 15 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
210 PM EST SUN NOV 22 1992
COUNTY........ UNION
SOURCE........ UNION COUNTY DISPARCH
TIME.......... 1:45 PM EST
LOCATION...... COUNTY WIDE
TYPE STORM.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
HAIL.......... NONE ATTM
DAMAGE........ NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
INJURIES...... NONE ATTM
WARNING....... TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT
]
jLocal storm report, Nov 22, 2:16 PM EST, 10 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
215 PM EST SUN NOV 22 1992
COUNTY........ WHITE
SOURCE........ WHITE COUTY S.O.
TIME.......... 2:00 PM EST
LOCATION...... NORTH PART OF COUNTY
TYPE STORM.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
HAIL.......... NONE ATTM
DAMAGE........ TREE BLOWN DOWN ONTO VEHICLE ON HIWAY 129
INJURIES...... NONE ATTM
WARNING....... TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT
]Local storm report, Nov 22, 2:18 PM EST, 8 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 210 PM EST SUN NOV 22 1992 COUNTY........ UNION SOURCE........ UNION COUNTY DISPATCH TIME.......... 1:45 PM EST LOCATION...... COUNTY WIDE TYPE STORM.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL.......... NONE ATTM DAMAGE........ NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN INJURIES...... NONE ATTM WARNING....... TORNADO WARNING IN EFFECT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 22, 9:35 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 40 min |
| Nov 22, 9:53 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 67 min |
| Nov 22, 10:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker | 44 min |
| Nov 22, 11:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Haralson, Paulding | 57 min |
| Nov 22, 11:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 57 min |
| Nov 22, 11:44 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas, Paulding | 46 min |
| Nov 22, 12:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard, Meriwether, Troup | 57 min |
| Nov 22, 12:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 48 min |
| Nov 22, 1:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Fulton | 40 min |
| Nov 22, 1:24 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Towns, Union, White | 66 min |
| Nov 22, 1:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 58 min |
| Nov 22, 1:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 58 min |
| Nov 22, 2:01 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Spalding | 44 min |
| Nov 22, 2:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Rockdale | 64 min |
| Nov 22, 3:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 65 min |
| Nov 22, 3:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Upson | 62 min |
| Nov 22, 3:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts | 62 min |
| Nov 22, 4:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Putnam | 59 min |
| Nov 22, 4:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 69 min |
| Nov 22, 4:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Taliaferro | 32 min |
| Nov 22, 5:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 44 min |
| Nov 22, 5:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lincoln | 48 min |
| Nov 22, 6:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Columbia, Lincoln | 29 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.