Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1992, 10:15 PM EST for Columbia County, Richmond County, Georgia; Aiken County, South Carolina. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1992, 10:15 PM EST (03:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1992, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Columbia County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Aiken County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAGS 070316 RRA SVRAGS GAC073-245-SCC003-070400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA 1015 PM EST FRI MAR 6 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN COLUMBIA COUNTY...NORTHERN RICHMOND COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA ...AIKEN COUNTY AT 1010 PM EST 1 INCH SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED COVERING THE GROUND IN MARTINEZ IN SOUTHERN COLUMBIA COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE AUGUSTA AREA AND THEN INTO AIKEN COUNTY SOUTH CAROLINA WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. 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, Mar 6, 8:49 PM EST, 1 hour 26 minutes before
GAZ001>GAZ003-GAZ005-070300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 850 PM EST FRI MAR 6 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 47 CANCELLED FOR NORTHWEST GEORGIA...BUT CONTINUES FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA... WHILE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO RUMBLE OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS ENDED FOR THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF THE STATE THIS EVENING. THUS THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... WALKER...WHITFIELD...MURRAY...FANNIN...GILMER...PICKENS...DAWSON... CHATTOOGA...GORDON...FLOYD...BARTOW...POLK...CHEROKEE...FORSYTH... HARALSON...PAULDING...COBB...CARROLL...DOUGLAS...FULTON...GWINNETT... DE KALB...HEARD...COWETA...FAYETTE...CLAYTON...HENRY...ROCKDALE... TROUP...MERIWETHER...AND SPAULDING. . REPEATING...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE ABOVE COUNTIES ONLY. THE WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 1=0 PM FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA.
Local storm report, Mar 6, 9:09 PM EST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 910 PM EST FRI MAR 6 1992 COUNTY........ MORGAN SOURCE........ HAM RADIO NETWORK TIME.......... 900 PM EST LOCATION...... NORTHEAST MORGAN COUNFTY TYPE STORM.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL.......... GOLF BALL SIZE (ESTIMATED ONE INCH DIA) DAMAGE........ NONE AT THIS TIME INJURIES...... UNK
Local storm report, Mar 6, 9:13 PM EST, 1 hour 2 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 912 PM EST FRI MAR 6 1992 COUNTY........ WALTON SOURCE........ OCONEE COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT TIME.......... 900 PM EST LOCATION...... COUNTYW|IDE TYPE STORM.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL.......... UNK DAMAGE........ TREES DOWN INJURIES...... UNK
Local storm report, Mar 6, 9:14 PM EST, 1 hour 1 minute before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 914 PM EST FRI MAR 6 1992 COUNTY........ OCONEE SOURCE........ OCONEE COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT TIME.......... 900 PM EST LOCATION...... SOUTHERN OCONEE COUNTY TYPE STORM.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL.......... NICKLE SIZE DAMAGE........ UNK INJURIES...... UNK
Local storm report, Mar 6, 9:46 PM EST, 29 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 945 PM EST FRI MAR 6 1992 COUNTY........ GREENE SOURCE........ GREENE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE TIME.......... 930 PM EST LOCATION...... IN GRESHASMVILLE (WESTERN GREENE COUNTY) TYPE STORM.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL.......... NICKLE TO GOLFBALL SIZE DAMAGE........ UNK INJURIES...... UNK
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 10:12 PM EST, 3 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-071300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
1010 PM EST FRI MAR 6 1992R
...DENSE FOG FORMING IN MIDDLE GEORGIA...
AT 1005 PM DENSE FOG WITH THE VISIBILTY NEAR ZERO WAS COVERING
THE MIDDLE GEORGIA REGIONAL AIRPORT.
MANY PARTS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA WILL LIKLEY SEE THICK FOG FORMING
TONIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING.
MOTORISTS SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION TONIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING.
IN ADDITION TO THE POSSIBILITY OF FOG...MANY ROADS ARE STILL WET
FROM RECENT RAINS. THIS WILL MAKE DRIVING EVEN MORE HAZARDOUS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 7:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 34 min |
| Mar 6, 8:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Walton | 55 min |
| Mar 6, 8:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall, Jackson | 65 min |
| Mar 6, 8:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Oconee | 60 min |
| Mar 6, 9:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Burke, Jefferson, Richmond | 47 min |
| Mar 6, 9:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 69 min |
| Mar 6, 10:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Elbert | 65 min |
| Mar 6, 10:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 53 min |
| Mar 6, 10:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Columbia, McDuffie, Richmond | 58 min |
| Mar 6, 10:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 58 min |
| Mar 6, 11:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Edgefield, McCormick | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1992Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 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.