Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1993, 7:15 PM EDT for Cobb County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1993, 7:15 PM EDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1993, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cobb County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 1976 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 759 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KATL 052316 SVRFFC GAC067-060000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 715 PM EDT SAT JUN 5 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...COBB COUNTY AT 715 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN COBB COUNTY JUST NORTH OF POWDER SPRINGS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM LIKELY CONTAINS DAMAGING WINDS ALONG WITH LARGE HAIL. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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, Jun 5, 5:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
GAZ001-003-060200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 555 PM EST SAT JUNE 5 1993 ...PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA REMAIN UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 900 PM EDT THIS EVENING... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP EASTWARD ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. AT 550 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS OVER POLK...HARALSON...PAULDING AND COBB COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST EAST OF ROCKMART. OTHER STORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS THE NORTH GEORGIA MOUNTAINS FROM ELLIJAY EAST TO LAKE RABUN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHWEST GEORGIA INTO THE EVENING HOURS. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. THEREFORE PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TV STATIONS FOR LATER WEATHER INFORMATION OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 6:30 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-052335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 630 PM EDT SAT JUN 5 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 900 PM EDT... AT 625 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA INTO NORTHWEST SOUTH CAROLINA. MOST OF THE ACTIVITY IN GEORGIA WAS MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM CARROLLTON TO ATLANTA TO ELBERTON. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA JUST NORTHWEST OF ATLANTA AND 10 MILES NORTH OF CARROLLTON. IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY FREQUENT LIGHTNING WAS LOCATED NEAR HARTWELL. PEOPLE THROUGHOUT NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE OVER THEIR AREA.
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 6:32 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-052335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 630 PM EDT SAT JUN 5 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 900 PM EDT... AT 625 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA INTO NORTHWEST SOUTH CAROLINA. MOST OF THE ACTIVITY IN GEORGIA WAS MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM CARROLLTON TO ATLANTA TO ELBERTON. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA JUST NORTHWEST OF ATLANTA AND 10 MILES NORTH OF CARROLLTON. IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY FREQUENT LIGHTNING WAS LOCATED NEAR HARTWELL. PEOPLE THROUGHOUT NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE OVER THEIR AREA.
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 6:35 PM EDT, 40 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-052235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 535 PM EDT SAT JUN 5 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 900 PM EDT... AT 525 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA INTO NORTHWEST SOUTH CAROLINA. MOST OF THE ACTIVITY IN GEORGIA WAS MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM CARROLLTON TO JEFFERSON TO HARTWELL. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA JUST SOUTH OF GAINESVILLE IN HALL COUNTY AND WAS MOVING INTO JACKSOjN COUNTY. MOVEMENT EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE THROUGHOUT NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE OVER THEIR AREA.
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 6:59 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
GAZ001-003-060200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 700 PM EDT SAT JUN 5 1993 ...PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA REMAIN UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 900 PM EDT THIS EVENING... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA EARLY THIS EVENING. AT 655 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER HARALSON...PAULDING...COBB AND EXTREME NORTH CARROLL COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN SOUTHERN PAULDING COUNTY SOUTH OF DALLAS. THE PAULDING COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. HOWEVER SINCE THEY HAVE REMAINED OVER THE SAME AREA FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR...SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADS AND SMALL STREAMS COULD OCCUR. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHWEST GEORGIA INTO THE EVENING HOURS. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. THEREFORE PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TV STATIONS FOR LATER WEATHER INFORMATION OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 7:00 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
GAZ001-003-060200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 700 PM EDT SAT JUN 5 1993 ...PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA REMAIN UNDER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 900 PM EDT THIS EVENING... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA EARLY THIS EVENING. AT 655 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER HARALSON...PAULDING...COBB AND EXTREME NORTH CARROLL COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN SOUTHERN PAULDING COUNTY SOUTH OF DALLAS. THE PAULDING COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. HOWEVER SINCE THEY HAVE REMAINED OVER THE SAME AREA FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR...SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADS AND SMALL STREAMS COULD OCCUR. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHWEST GEORGIA INTO THE EVENING HOURS. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. THEREFORE PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TV STATIONS FOR LATER WEATHER INFORMATION OR WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Habersham, Rabun, Towns, White | 62 min |
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.