Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1993, 2:50 PM EDT for Clarke County, Georgia. It was in force for 70 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1993, 2:50 PM EDT (18:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1993, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 70 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clarke County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 6 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 673 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, May 31, 2:39 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-311800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 235 PM EDT MON MAY 31 1993 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA... RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL APPROACHING BARROW...WALTON AND NEWTON COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR CONYERS AND SOCIAL CIRCLE AND WEST OF WINDER. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS OUTDOORS SHOULD MOVE INSIDE UNTIL THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PASSED. MOTORISTS ARE REMINDED TO NOT CROSS WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTHS AS SOME FLOODING OF STREETS IS POSSIBLE DUE THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS. THOSE ON AREA LAKES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER AT THE FIRST SIGN OF AN APPROACHING THUNDERSTORM. ELSEWHERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE SCATTERED ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH GEORGIA...NORTHWEST SOUTH CAROLINA AND WEST NORTH CAROLINA. STORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE DETECTED OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA NEAR FORT VALLEY AND 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MACON. ALSO OVER NORTHWEST SOUTH CAROLINA STORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE NOTED NEAR WALHALLA AND PICKENS. ALL ACTIVITY WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, May 31, 2:43 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-311946- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 235 PM EDT MON MAY 31 1993 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA... RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL APPROACHING BARROW...WALTON AND NEWTON COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR CONYERS AND SOCIAL CIRCLE AND WEST OF WINDER. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS OUTDOORS SHOULD MOVE INSIDE UNTIL THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PASSED. MOTORISTS ARE REMINDED TO NOT CROSS WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTHS AS SOME FLOODING OF STREETS IS POSSIBLE DUE THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS. THOSE ON AREA LAKES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER AT THE FIRST SIGN OF AN APPROACHING THUNDERSTORM. ELSEWHERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE SCATTERED ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH GEORGIA...NORTHWEST SOUTH CAROLINA AND WEST NORTH CAROLINA. STORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE DETECTED OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA NEAR FORT VALLEY AND 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MACON. ALSO OVER NORTHWEST SOUTH CAROLINA STORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE NOTED NEAR WALHALLA AND PICKENS. ALL ACTIVITY WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
Local storm report, May 31, 2:45 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON, GA 250 PM EDT MON MAY 31 1993 COUNTY..... BIBB SOURCE..... NWS OBSERVER TIME....... 137-140 PM EDT LOCATION... MACON AIRPORT TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL....... THREE QUARTER IN DIAMETER HAIL. DAMAGE..... UNKN INJURIES... UNKN COST....... UNKN
Local storm report, May 31, 2:50 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 250 PM EDT MON MAY 31 1993 COUNTY..... COBB SOURCE..... COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT TYPE....... FUNNEL CLOUD SIGHTED...NO TOUCH DOWN TIME....... 215 PM EDT LOCATION... AUSTELL ROAD AND EAST-WEST CONNECTOR. DAMAGE..... NONE REPORTED. COUNTY..... COBB SOURCE..... COUNTY SHERIFF TYPE....... FUNNEL CLOUD SIGHTED...NO TOUCH DOWN TIME....... 230 PM EDT LOCATION... I-285 AND SOUTH COBB DRIVE DAMAGE..... NONE WUUS01KAHN ,
Local storm report, May 31, 2:50 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 250 PM EDT MON MAY 31 1993 COUNTY..... COBB SOURCE..... COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT TYPE....... FUNNEL CLOUD SIGHTED...NO TOUCH DOWN TIME....... 215 PM EDT LOCATION... AUSTELL ROAD AND EAST-WEST CONNECTOR. DAMAGE..... NONE REPORTED. COUNTY..... COBB SOURCE..... COUNTY SHERIFF TYPE....... FUNNEL CLOUD SIGHTED...NO TOUCH DOWN TIME....... 230 PM EDT LOCATION... I-285 AND SOUTH COBB DRIVE DAMAGE..... NONE
Local storm report, May 31, 2:50 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON, GA 250 PM EDT MON MAY 31 1993 COUNTY..... BIBB SOURCE..... NWS OBSERVER TIME....... 137-140 PM EDT LOCATION... MACON AIRPORT TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL....... THREE QUARTER IN DIAMETER HAIL. DAMAGE..... UNKN INJURIES... UNKN COST....... UNKN WWUS30KATL ,
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 12:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pickens | 36 min |
| May 31, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth | 60 min |
| May 31, 1:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Twiggs | 59 min |
| May 31, 1:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton, Gwinnett | 53 min |
| May 31, 2:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 45 min |
| May 31, 2:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 55 min |
| May 31, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Walton | 70 min |
| May 31, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 57 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.