Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1993, 7:35 PM EDT for Floyd County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 1993, 7:35 PM EDT (23:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1993, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Floyd County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 345 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1126 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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, Jun 30, 3:28 PM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
GAZ008-GAZ009-302130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 329 PM EDT WED JUN 30 1993 ...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA... AT 320 PM EDT COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR WAS INDICATING A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN AN AREA OF RAIN FROM VIENNA TO LEESBURG AND SOUTH OF WARWICK TO EAST OF ALBANY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALBANY..3 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEESBURG AND JUST EAST OF LAKE BLACKSHEAR TO VIENNA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN NORTHEAST DOUGHERTY COUNTY AND LEE..SUMTER AND DOOLY COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.. HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. YOU SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 3:29 PM EDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
GAZ008-GAZ009-302130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 329 PM EDT WED JUN 30 1993 ...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA... AT 320 PM EDT COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR WAS INDICATING A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN AN AREA OF RAIN FROM VIENNA TO LEESBURG AND SOUTH OF WARWICK TO EAST OF ALBANY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALBANY..3 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEESBURG AND JUST EAST OF LAKE BLACKSHEAR TO VIENNA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN NORTHEAST DOUGHERTY COUNTY AND LEE..SUMTER AND DOOLY COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.. HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. YOU SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 6:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
GAZ001>GAZ003-302333- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 627 PM EDT TUE JUN 29 1993 AT 625 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA BETWEEN ROME AND CHATTANOOGA...AND BETWEEN ROME AND BLUE RIDGE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF CALHOUN. FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND A BRIEF PERIOD OF VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. SO PEOPLE IN THE NORTHWEST COUNTIES WHO ARE OUTDOORS...OR PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. TO AVOID LIGHTNING...THE SAFEST PLACE IS IN YOUR HOME AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 26 min |
| Jun 30, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 27 min |
| Jun 30, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 28 min |
| Jun 30, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | McMinn | 61 min |
| Jun 30, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bradley | 60 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.