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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 9, 1993Laurens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1993, 5:28 PM EDT for Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 1993, 5:28 PM EDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1993, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Laurens County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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 1993-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 869 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 1993-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -36 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
869 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-184 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1313 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KMCN 102134 
SVRMCN
GAC175-092230-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ...CORRECTION TO TIME...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
528 PM EDT WED JUN 9 1993

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON GA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

   ...LAURENS COUNTY

AT 5:27 PM... RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
IN LAURENS COUNTY BETWEEN DUDLEY AND DUBLIN. NO MOVEMENT WAS DETERMINED.

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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 6:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens32 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.