Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 1992, 3:03 PM EST for Screven County, Georgia; Allendale County, South Carolina. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 1992, 3:03 PM EST (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 1992, 3:29 PM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Screven County, GA, Allendale County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 763 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -90 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 KAGS 192004
TORAGS
GAC251-SCC005-192100-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA
303 PM EST THU MAR 19 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
...EASTERN SCREVEN COUNTY
IN WEST CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
...ALLENDALE COUNTY
AT 3 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS DETECTING A TORNADO 10
MILES SOUTHEAST OF SYLVANIA GEORGIA MOVING TO THE EAST AT 45 MILES AN
HOUR.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE. OTH{ERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 12:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 27 min |
| Mar 19, 12:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 56 min |
| Mar 19, 12:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 29 min |
| Mar 19, 12:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 38 min |
| Mar 19, 1:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Oconee | 60 min |
| Mar 19, 1:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 60 min |
| Mar 19, 1:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks | 60 min |
| Mar 19, 1:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Gordon, Pickens | 40 min |
| Mar 19, 1:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Elbert, Franklin, Hart | 48 min |
| Mar 19, 2:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth | 49 min |
| Mar 19, 2:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 45 min |
| Mar 19, 2:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens, Treutlen | 40 min |
| Mar 19, 2:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 67 min |
| Mar 19, 2:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Pulaski | 29 min |
| Mar 19, 3:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 30 min |
| Mar 19, 3:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson, Madison | 58 min |
| Mar 19, 5:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Pickens | 49 min |
| Mar 19, 5:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin | 65 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.