Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 25, 1992, 11:06 PM EST for Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 25, 1992, 11:06 PM EST (04:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 1992, 11:45 PM EST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fulton County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 558 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 260408 SVRATL GAC121-260445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 1106 PM EST TUE FEB 25 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN FULTON COUNTY AT 1105 PM EST RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER WEST OF FAIRBURN IN SOUTHERN FULTON COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND xVERY 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, Feb 25, 10:50 PM EST, 16 minutes before
GAZ001-002-003-005-260530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 1051 PM EST TUE FEB 25 1992 AT 1045 PM EST SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAD INCREASED IN COVERAGE OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA. THE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDER- STORMS EXTENDED FROM LA GRANGE AND THOMASTON NORTH TO AROUND ROME... CARTERSVILLE AND JASPER. A FEW OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ALONG WITHz DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA AND TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 11:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 40 min |
| Feb 26, 12:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 37 min |
| Feb 26, 12:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 30 min |
| Feb 26, 1:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Rockdale | 35 min |
| Feb 26, 1:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Walton | 40 min |
| Feb 26, 3:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Spalding | 45 min |
| Feb 26, 4:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 68 min |
| Feb 26, 4:43 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Putnam | 32 min |
| Feb 26, 4:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Taliaferro | 56 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.