Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 8, 1993, 4:14 AM EST for Montgomery County, Treutlen County, Wheeler County, Georgia. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 8, 1993, 4:14 AM EST (09:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 1993, 5:15 AM EST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Montgomery County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Wheeler County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 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 KMCN 080915 SVRMCN GAC209-309-283-081015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 414 AM EST FRI JAN 8 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON GA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...MONTGOMERY COUNTY...WHEELER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...TREUTLEN COUNTY AT 4 15 AM EST A REPORT FROM MCRAE POLICE DEPARTMENT INDICATED WIND DAMMAGE NEAR ALAMO IN WHEELER COUNTY OF MIDDLE GEORGIA. AT 4 15 A, EST RADAR LOCATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH OVER EASTERN LAURENS...WHEELER AND TELFAIR COUNTIES. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. 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 QUpICKLY 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, Jan 8, 12:52 AM EST, 3 hours 22 minutes before
GAZ-008-011-012-080800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 1245 AM EST FRI JAN 8 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHCENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 1240 AM EST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHCENTRAL GEORGIA. THE RAIN AND STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHCENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT FOR HEAVY RAIN..LIGHTNING..GUSTY WIND.. AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR RESIDENCE IF A TORNADO THREATENS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jan 8, 1:35 AM EST, 2 hours 39 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-080830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 130 AM EST FRI JAN 8 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 2 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM FOR IRWIN AND TURNER COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...AROUND OCILLA AND ASHBURN..AS WELL AS FOR OTHER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 130 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS LOCATED AN AREA OF RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA OVER AN AREA BOUNDED BY COLUMBUS...MACON...ALBANY AND MCRAE. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT THUNDERTORM AT 1 30 AM WAS JUST NORTH OF EASTMAN IN DODGE COUNTY WITH OTHER THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED AROUND THE MIDDLE GEORGIA AREA. THUNDERSTORM AND PRECIPITATION MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO NEARBY WEATHER THIS MORNING. HEAVY RAINFALL ...AT TIMES...WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT. LIGHTNING AND STRONGZ GUSTY WIND SHOULD BE EXPECTED NEAR THUNDERSTORMS AND REMEMBER THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOES EXISTS UNTIL 7 AM.
Special weather statement, Jan 8, 1:37 AM EST, 2 hours 37 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-080830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 130 AM EST FRI JAN 8 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 2 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM FOR IRWIN AND TURNER COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...AROUND OCILLA AND ASHBURN.. AS WELL AS FOR OTHER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 130 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS LOCATED AN AREA OF RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA OVER AN AREA BOUNDED BY COLUMBUS...MACON...ALBANY AND MCRAE. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT THUNDERTORM AT 1 30 AM WAS JUST NORTH OF EASTMAN IN DODGE COUNTY WITH OTHER THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED AROUND THE MIDDLE GEORGIA AREA. THUNDERSTORM AND PRECIPITATION MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO NEARBY WEATHER THIS MORNING. HEAVY RAINFALL ...AT TIMES...WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT. LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTbY WIND SHOULD BE EXPECTED NEAR THUNDERSTORMS AND REMEMBER THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOES EXISTS UNTIL 7 AM.
Special weather statement, Jan 8, 2:36 AM EST, 1 hour 38 minutes before
GAZ-008-011-012-080930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 235 AM EST FRI JAN 8 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHCENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 230 AM EST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHCENTRAL GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE FROM NEAR ALBANY SOUTHWARD TO THE FLORIDA BORDER. THE RAIN AND STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHCENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT FOR HEAVY RAIN..LIGHTNING..GUSTY WIND.. AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR RESIDENCE IF A TORNADO THREATENS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jan 8, 3:36 AM EST, 38 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-081030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 335 AM EST FRI JAN 8 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 2 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM FOR IRWIN AND TURNER COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...AROUND OCILLA AND ASHBURN.. AS WELL AS FOR OTHER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 330 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS LOCATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA MAINLY IN AN AREA BOUNDED BY COLUMBUS...ATHENS...VALDOSTA AND AUGUSTA. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT THUNDERTORM AT 330 AM WAS BETWEEN COCHRANE AND HAWKINSVILLE WITH A FEW OTHER THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED AROUND THE MIDDLE GEORGIA AREA. THUNDERSTORM AND PRECIPITATION MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. PERSONS LOCATED WITHIN THE WATCH AREA AND NEAR THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ALERT TO NEARBY WEATHER THIS MORNING. RAINFALL...HEAVY AT TIMES... WILL MAKE DRIVING DANGEROUS. LIGHTNING AND STRON:G GUSTY WIND SHOULD BE EXPECTED NEAR THUNDERSTORMS AND REMEMBER THE POSSIBILITY OF TORNADOES EXISTS WITH IN THE WATCH AREA OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 700 AM THIS FRIDAY MORNING.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.