Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1992, 8:21 PM EDT for Floyd County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1992, 8:21 PM EDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1992, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Floyd County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1342 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 190021 SVRATL GAC115-190100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 821 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...FLOYD COUNTY AT 818 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE ROME AIRPORT NORTH OF THE CITY OF ROME. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND SHOULD AFFECT PORTIONS OF THE CITY OF ROME... AS WELL AS COMMUNITIES NORTH AND EAST OF THE CITY. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING CONSIDERABLE WIND DAMAGE. IT HAS ALSO DROPPED LARGE HAIL. 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, Jun 18, 2:23 PM EDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before
GAZ001-182000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 222 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A SMALL PORTION OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA AND WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT. THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THE WATCH AREA EXTENDS INTO CHATTOOGA...GORDON AND GILMER COUNTIES WHILE THE EASTERN EDGE EXTENDS INTO FANNIN COUNTY. AT 215 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN ATLANTA DID NOT INDICATE ANY SEVERE WEATHER IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA. HOWEVER...A 25 MILE WIDE BAND OF SCATTERED SHOWERS HAS DEVELOPED FROM NEAR ROME NORTHEAST TO BLAIRSVILLE IN EXTREME NORTHWEST GEORGIA. MOVEMENT OF THESE SHOWERS WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. INCREASINGLY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA ALONG WITH AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES INTO THE 80S WILL ALLOW SOME THUNDERSTORMS TO REACH SEVERE LEVELS LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING IN THE WATCH AREA. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STRONGER STORMS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREAS. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. ZALESKI
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 5:33 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
GAZ001-190000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 530 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A SMALL PORTION OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA AND WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT. THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THE WATCH AREA EXTENDS INTO CHATTOOGA...GORDON AND GILMER COUNTIES WHILE THE EASTERN EDGE EXTENDS INTO FANNIN COUNTY. AT 530 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN ATLANTA DID NOT INDICATE ANY SEVERE WEATHER IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN EASTERN ALABAMA...BETWEEN HUNTSVILLE AND THE ALABAMA-GEORGIA BORDER. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE. THE MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR. MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA ALONG WITH AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES INTO THE 80S WILL ALLOW SOME THUNDERSTORMS TO REACH SEVERE LEVELS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT IN THE WATCH AREA. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREAS. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CO:NDITIONS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 5:39 PM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
GAZ001-002-190000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 530 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A SMALL PORTION OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA AND WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT. THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THE WATCH AREA EXTENDS INTO CHATTOOGA...GORDON AND GILMER COUNTIES WHILE THE EASTERN EDGE EXTENDS INTO FANNIN COUNTY. AT 530 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN ATLANTA DID NOT INDICATE ANY SEVERE WEATHER IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN EASTERN ALABAMA...BETWEEN HUNTSVILLE AND THE ALABAMA-GEORGIA BORDER. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE. THE MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR. MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA ALONG WITH AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES INTO THE 80S WILL ALLOW SOME THUNDERSTORMS TO REACH SEVERE LEVELS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT IN THE WATCH AREA. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREAS. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHEXR CONDITIONS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 7:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
GAZ001>003-190100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 700 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A SMALL PORTION OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA UNTIL 8 PM EDT. THE WATCH COVERS ROME...DALTON... ELLIJAY...BLUE RIDGE...AND SURROUNDING AREAS. AT 650 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN ATLANTA DID NOT INDICATE ANY SEVERE WEATHER IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTH ALABAMA NORTH AND WEST OF GADSDEN. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSHOWERS WERE OCCURRING IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA FROM NEAR A ROME TO JASPER LINE NORTH TO THE TENNESSEE BORDER. THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THE WATCH AREA REMAINS. PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD STAY INFORMED ON WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF THUNDERSTORMS THREATEN OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREAS. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND PGOSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 8:07 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
GAZ002-190100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 805 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992 A LARGE THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED OVER PICKENS COUNTY OF NORTH GEORGIA AND IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS DAWSON...LOWER LUMPKIN AND NORTH HALL COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL HAVE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AND FLOODING OF LOW PLACES ON ROADWAYS.
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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.