Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1992, 10:32 PM EST for Warren County, Georgia. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1992, 10:32 PM EST (03:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1992, 11:30 PM EST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Warren County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 83 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 070331 SVRAGS GAC073-189-245-301-SCC037-070430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA 1032 PM EST FRI MAR 6 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...COLUMBIA COUNTY...MCDUFFIE COUNTY...NORTHERN RICHMOND COUNTY ...WARREN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA ...EDGEFIELD COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR 1030 PM INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WARREN COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...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, Mar 6, 8:49 PM EST, 1 hour 43 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 23 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 19 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 18 minutes 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, 46 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, 20 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, 10:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Columbia, Richmond | 45 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 |
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.