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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Aug 27, 1992, 6:54 PM EDT for Chattooga County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 1992, 6:54 PM EDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 1992, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chattooga County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 1374 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 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 272254 TORATL GAC055-272330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 654 PM EDT THU AUG 27 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...CHATTOOGA COUNTY AT 650 PM EDT THERE WERE REPORTS OF A TORNADO NEAR THE CRYSTAL SPRINGS AREA IN FLOYD COUNTY. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTH TOWARD CHATTOOGA COUNTY...ESPECIALLY IN THE EASTERN END OF THE COUNTY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INnTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 37 min |
| Aug 27, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas | 45 min |
| Aug 27, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley | 53 min |
| Aug 27, 4:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 38 min |
| Aug 27, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 59 min |
| Aug 27, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 61 min |
| Aug 27, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 38 min |
| Aug 27, 5:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Paulding | 54 min |
| Aug 27, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Pulaski | 62 min |
| Aug 27, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Meriwether | 37 min |
| Aug 27, 6:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 35 min |
| Aug 27, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 31 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.