Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 222, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 24, 1992, 11:54 AM EST for Turner County, Georgia. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 24, 1992, 11:54 AM EST (16:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 1992, 1:00 PM EST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Turner County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 458 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 395 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCN 241655 SVRMCN GAC287-241800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 1154 AM EST TUE NOV 24 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON GA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA ...TURNER COUNTY AT 1150 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SOUTH OF ASHBURN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. 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, Nov 24, 8:49 AM EST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
GAZ005-008-ALZ012-241545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 847 AM EST TUE NOV 24 1992 WEATHER RADAR IN COLUMUBS WAS MONITORING A MASSIVE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM ATLANTA SOUTHWEST TO COLUMBUS AND TO FT.RUCKER...THIS IS THE LEADING EDGE...THE WHOLE AREA EXTENDS WESTWARD BEYOND MONTGOMERY AND WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH. WIND GUST OF UP TO 50 MILES AN HOUR HAS BEEN RECORDED AT THE WEATHER OFFICE IN MONTGOMERY ALABAMA. AS THIS AREA MOVES THROUGH EASTERN ALABAMA AND INTO GEORGIA WE CAN EXPECT GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...HAIL AND LIGHTNING. DUE TO HEAVY RAINFALLS ON SUNDAY SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS VIS A STRONG POSSIBILITY. THIS WEATHER SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH MOST OF THE DAY. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Nov 24, 9:35 AM EST, 2 hours 19 minutes before
GAZ008-011-241630-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
934 AM EST TUE NOV 24 1992
...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 128 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A SMALL PORTION OF
SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA UNTIL 12 NOON EST.
AT 930 AM EST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH
EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA . THE LEADING EDGE
OF THE RAIN AREA WAS NEAR DOTHAN, ALABAMA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR HOUSTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA.
PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA CAN EXPECT GUSTY WINDS...LIGHTNING...
HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN...POSSIBLE HAIL AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING
AREAS DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.
REMAIN ALERT AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.Special weather statement, Nov 24, 9:43 AM EST, 2 hours 11 minutes before
GAZ008-011-241630-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
934 AM EST TUE NOV 24 1992 ...CORRECTION FOR WATCH NUMBER..
...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 928 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A SMALL PORTION OF
SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA UNTIL 12 NOON EST.
AT 930 AM EST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH
EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA . THE LEADING EDGE
OF THE RAIN AREA WAS NEAR DOTHAN, ALABAMA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR HOUSTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA.
PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA CAN EXPECT GUSTY WINDS...LIGHTNING...
HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN...POSSIBLE HAIL AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING
AREAS DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.
REMAIN ALERT AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.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.