Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 1992, 2:31 PM EDT for Coweta County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 1992, 2:31 PM EDT (18:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 1992, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coweta County, GA, Fulton County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 991 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 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 KATL 111832 SVRATL GAC077-121-111915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 231 PM EDT SAT APR 11 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...NORTHERN COWETA COUNTY...SOUTHERN FULTON COUNTY AT 2:30 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NORTH OF NEWNAN IN NORTHERN COWETA COUNTYA. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FAIRBURN IN SOUTHERN FULTON COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 20 MILES AN 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, Apr 11, 12:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
GAZ003-005-111700-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
1159 AM EDT SAT APR 11 1992
...THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL..
AT 1150 AN AREA OF RAIN WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO ADVANCE
NORTH THROUGH UPSON COUNTY NEAR THE CRAWFORD COUNTY LINE...IN WEST
CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE STORM WILL PASS INTO LAMAR COUNTY SHORTLY. NO
DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED.
PERSONS IN LAMAR COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS AND REPORT UNUSUAL WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THE LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
CONDITIONS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE
REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING FOR RESIDENTS OF WEST
CENTRAL AS WELL AS FOR ALL OF GEORGIA.Special weather statement, Apr 11, 12:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
GAZ003-005-111700-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT.. CORRECTION TO TIME IN TEXT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
1159 AM EDT SAT APR 11 1992
...THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL..
AT 1150 AM EDT...AN AREA OF RAIN WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO
ADVANCE NORTH THROUGH UPSON COUNTY NEAR THE CRAWFORD COUNTY LINE...IN
WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE STORM WILL PASS INTO LAMAR COUNTY SHORTLY. NO
DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED.
PERSONS IN LAMAR COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS AND REPORT UNUSUAL WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THE LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
CONDITIONS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE
REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENINtG FOR RESIDENTS OF WEST
CENTRAL AS WELL AS FOR ALL OF GEORGIA.Special weather statement, Apr 11, 1:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
GAZ006-111900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 110 PM EDT SAT APR 11 1992 A LARGE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THROUGH MONROE COUNTY TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. AT 105 PM IT WAS 10 MILES NORTH OF FORSYTH. IT CARRIED WITH IT WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 40 MILES AN HOUR AND FREQUENT GROUND STRIKE LIGHTNING. ON ITS PRESENT COURSE THE STORM WILL PASS JUST SOUTH OF MONTICELLO IN ONE HOUR. OTHER VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED IN THE UNSTABLE MOIST AIR IN JONES AND BALDWIN COUNTIES AND WERE MOVING NORTHEAST 20 MILES AN HOUR. STORMS IN THIS AREA COULD INTENSIFY AND PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 40 MILES AN HOUR. MACON AND ATHENS RADARS ARE MONITORING THESE STORMS CLOSELY. WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED WHEN NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 11:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 51 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.