Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 25, 1992, 6:42 AM EST for Clarke County, Jackson County, Oconee County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 25, 1992, 6:42 AM EST (11:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 25, 1992, 7:15 AM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clarke County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Oconee County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 15 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 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 KAHN 251145 SVRAHN GAC059-157-219-251215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 642 AM EST WED NOV 25 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATHENS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...CLARKE COUNTY...JACKSON COUNTY...OCONEE COUNTY RADAR INDICATES SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO JACKSON AND CLARKE COUNTIES OF GEORGIA. 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 25, 2:49 AM EST, 3 hours 53 minutes before
GAZ001>004-251050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 248 AM EST WED NOV 25 1992 A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. BY 245 AM RADAR INDICATED THE BAND EXTENDED FROM NEAR JASPER TO NEAR CARTERSVILLE. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SOME LIGHTNING WAS REPORTED OVER NORTHERN BARTOW COUNTY. THE AREA OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. MEANWHILE OTHER STORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST ALABAMA AND WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHWEST GEORGIA OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. BRIEF PERIODS OF INTENSE RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL BE OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. RESIDENTS OF NORTH GEORGIA SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDIT IONS DURING THESE PREDAWN HOURS.
Special weather statement, Nov 25, 4:30 AM EST, 2 hours 12 minutes before
GAZ005-008-ALZ011-251030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 429 AM EST WED NOV 25 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 932 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EST... AT 425 AM EST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR LAFAYETTE IN CHAMBERS COUNTY SOUTH ACROSS LEE COUNTY TO NEAR HURTSBORO IN RUSSELL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE ACROSS EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...WEST CENTRAL...AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT FOR TNUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. IF A THUNDERSTORMS THREATENS YOUR AREA MOVE INDOORES AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IN THE EVENT OF A TORNADO..MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR RESIDENCE AND GET UNDER SOMTHING STURDY. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNING.
Special weather statement, Nov 25, 6:32 AM EST, 10 minutes before
GAZ005-ALZ011-251330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 630 AM EST WED NOV 25 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 932 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EST... AT 625 AM EST WEATHER RADAR AT COLUMBUS GEORGIA INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR PHENIX CITY IN RUSSELL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ACROSS BARBOUR COUNTY TO NEAR OZARK IN DALE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA. PEOPLE ACROSS EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...WEST CENTRAL...AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THIS MORNING FOR THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. IF A THUNDERSTORMS THREATENS YOUR AREA MOVE INDOORES AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IN THE EVENT OF A TORNADO..MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF RESIDENCE AND GET UNDER SOMETHING STURDY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 25, 6:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Newton, Walton | 48 min |
| Nov 25, 9:56 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 4 hr |
| Nov 25, 10:42 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas | 4 hr |
| Nov 25, 10:42 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Clayton | 4 hr |
| Nov 25, 10:42 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 4 hr |
| Nov 25, 2:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett | 3 hr |
| Nov 25, 2:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Clayton | 3 hr |
| Nov 25, 2:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas | 3 hr |
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.