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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 11, 1992Coweta County, Meriwether County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1992, 2:40 PM EDT for Coweta County, Meriwether County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 1992, 2:40 PM EDT (18:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1992, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Coweta County, GA, Meriwether County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 156 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1992-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 481 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1992-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
481 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KATL 111841
TORATL
GAC077-199-111915-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA  GA
240 PM EDT THU JUN 11 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA  HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...SOUTHERN COWETA COUNTY
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...NORTHERN MERIWETHER COUNTY
 
AT 2:40 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED
AT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR THE COWETA
AND MERIWETHER COUNTY LINE ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF HOGANSVILLE. THIS
STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT NEAR 20 MILES AND 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.  OTHERWISE...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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 2:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDooly40 min
Jun 11, 2:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta44 min
Jun 11, 3:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll66 min
Jun 11, 3:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta, Fayette62 min
Jun 11, 3:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Fulton39 min
Jun 11, 6:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBurke40 min

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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.