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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 27, 1993Bartow County, Cherokee County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1993, 8:29 PM EDT for Bartow County, Cherokee County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 1993, 8:29 PM EDT (00:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1993, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bartow County, GA, Cherokee County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 483 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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, Jun 27, 5:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 6:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 6:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 7:50 PM EDT, 39 minutes before

GAZ001>003-280130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT... CORRECTION TO DATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
750 PM EDT SUN JUN 27 1993

          ...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST...

AT 740 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS WITH A FEW
THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF THE NORTHWEST.

HEAVY RAINFALL WAS INDICATED IN A STORM JUST WEST OF VILLA RICA IN
CARROLL COUNTY. SMALL HAIL WAS POSSIBLE IN THIS STORM. THE STORM WAS
MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND WAS PART OF AN AREA OF SHOWERS SPREADING
ACROSS PAULDING INTO DOUGLAS AND COBB COUNTIES. A STORM WITH POSSIBLE
HAIL WAS ALSO OVER EXTREME NORTHWEST CHEROKEE COUNTY.

ELSEWHERE..AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS WAS OVER CHATTOOGA..FLOYD..AND
POLK COUNTIES. HEAVY RAINFALL WAS OVER CAVE SPRINGS IN WEST FLOYD
COUNTY. THE SHOWERS EXTENDING NORTH INTO SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE.

WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL
CONTINUE DEVELOPING PAST DARK BEFORE DISSIPATING LATER THIS EVENING.

PERSONS IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO DEVELOPING STORMS
AND USE CAUTION IF STORMS SUDDENLY INTERRUPT SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES.

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 7:52 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

GAZ001>003-280130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
750 PM EDT SUN JUN 26 1993

          ...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST...

AT 740 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS WITH A FEW
THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF THE NORTHWEST.

HEAVY RAINFALL WAS INDICATED IN A STORM JUST WEST OF VILLA RICA IN
CARROLL COUNTY. SMALL HAIL WAS POSSIBLE IN THIS STORM. THE STORM WAS
MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND WAS PART OF AN AREA OF SHOWERS SPREADING
ACROSS PAULDING INTO DOUGLAS AND COBB COUNTIES. A STORM WITH POSSIBLE
HAIL WAS ALSO OVER EXTREME NORTHWEST CHEROKEE COUNTY.

ELSEWHERE..AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS WAS OVER CHATTOOGA..FLOYD..AND
POLK COUNTIES. HEAVY RAINFALL WAS OVER CAVE SPRINGS IN WEST FLOYD
COUNTY. THE SHOWERS EXTENDING NORTH INTO SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE.
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WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL
CONTINUE DEVELOPING PAST DARK BEFORE DISSIPATING LATER THIS EVENING.

PERSONS IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO DEVELOPING STORMS
AND USE CAUTION IF STORMS SUDDENLY INTERRUPT SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES.

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 7:55 PM EDT, 34 minutes before

GAZ001>003-280130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT... CORRECTION TO DATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
750 PM EDT SUN JUN 27 1993

          ...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST...

AT 740 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS WITH A FEW
THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF THE NORTHWEST.

HEAVY RAINFALL WAS INDICATED IN A STORM JUST WEST OF VILLA RICA IN
CARROLL COUNTY. SMALL HAIL WAS POSSIBLE IN THIS STORM. THE STORM WAS
MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND WAS PART OF AN AREA OF SHOWERS SPREADING
ACROSS PAULDING INTO DOUGLAS AND COBB COUNTIES. A STORM WITH POSSIBLE
HAIL WAS ALSO OVER EXTREME NORTHWEST CHEROKEE COUNTY.

ELSEWHERE..AN AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS WAS OVER CHATTOOGA..FLOYD..AND
POLK COUNTIES. HEAVY RAINFALL WAS OVER CAVE SPRINGS IN WEST FLOYD
COUNTY. THE SHOWERS EXTENDING NORTH INTO SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE.

WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL
CONTINUE DEVELOPING PAST DARK BEFORE DISSIPATING LATER THIS EVENING.

PERSONS IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO DEVELOPING STORMS
AND USE CAUTION IF STORMS SUDDENLY INTERRUPT SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 10:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	40 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.