Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1993, 8:34 PM EDT for Houston County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 1993, 8:34 PM EDT (00:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1993, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Houston County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 608 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2085 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMCN 080037 RRA SVRMCN GAC153-080100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 834 PM EDT WED JUL 7 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON GA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...HOUSTON COUNTY AT 8:33 PM RADAR WAS SHOWING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN HOUSTON COUNTY MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM APPEARED TO CONTAIN LARGE HAIL. THE STORM WAS NEAR HENDERSON AND GROVANIA. 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.
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, Jul 7, 6:16 PM EDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-072315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 618 PM EDT WED JUL 7 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN MIDDLE GEORGIA... AT 6:15 PM... RADAR AT MACON WAS SHOWING A FEW VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN BEN HILL COUNTY... WEST OF FITZGERALD. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE CAUSING SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS... ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINFALL. ELSEWHERE... AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS A FEW MILES NORTH OF MACON ON THE BIBB/JONES COUNTY LINE. THIS THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BRING HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS ACROSS THE CITY OF MACON... ESPECIALLY THE NORTHERN PART... BETWEEN 6:30 AND 7:00 PM. ONE OTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS IN SOUTHERN WILKINSON COUNTY. THE THUNDERS<TORMS HAVE BEEN DRIFTING SOUTHWEST... BRINGING BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. THERE MAY BE SOME HAIL... BUT IT SHOULD BE SMALL.
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 6:18 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-072315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 618 PM EDT WED JUL 7 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN MIDDLE GEORGIA... AT 6:15 PM... RADAR AT MACON WAS SHOWING A FEW VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN BEN HILL COUNTY... WEST OF FITZGERALD. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE CAUSING SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS... ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINFALL. ELSEWHERE... AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS A FEW MILES NORTH OF MACON ON THE BIBB/JONES COUNTY LINE. THIS THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BRING HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS ACROSS THE CITY OF MACON... ESPECIALLY THE NORTHERN PART... BETWEEN 6:30 AND 7:00 PM. ONE OTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS IN SOUTHERN WILKINSON COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN DRIFTING SOUTHWEST... BRINGING BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. THERE MAY BE SOME HAIL... BUT IT SHOULD BE SMALL.
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 6:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
645 PM EDT WED JUL 7 1993
AT 643 EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
OVER SOUTHCENTRAL GEORGIA ABOUT 15 MILES EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF TIFTON IN
TIFT COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING WEST AT ABOUT 10 MPH.
PEOPLE IN SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT THIS
EVENING FOR APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY
RAIN..GUSTY WIND..AND CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING. MOVE INDOORS IF A STORM
THREATENS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
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GAZ008-012-080045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 645 PM EDT WED JUL 7 1993 AT 643 EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHCENTRAL GEORGIA ABOUT 15 MILES EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF TIFTON IN TIFT COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING WEST AT ABOUT 10 MPH. PEOPLE IN SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT THIS EVENING FOR APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WIND..AND CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING. MOVE INDOORS IF A STORM THREATENS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 7:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-080025- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 725 PM EDT WED JUL 7 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN MIDDLE GEORGIA... AT 7:20 PM... RADAR AT MACON WAS SHOWING A FEW VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN TIFTON AND ASHBURN GEORGIA... MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. ELSEWHERE... A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE MACON AREA... AND EXTENDED SOUTH OVER WARNER ROBINS. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS BETWEEN MACON AND FORSYTH. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE STRONG... CAUSING HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS. THERE WAS SOME SMALL HAIL INDICATED ALSO... MAINLY IN THE STORM BETWEEN ASHBURN AND TIFTON. A FEW OTHER THUNDERSHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING AROUND HAWKINSVILLE AND ROBERTA. WUUS01KBDL ,;]
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 7:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-080025- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 725 PM EDT WED JUL 7 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN MIDDLE GEORGIA... AT 7:20 PM... RADAR AT MACON WAS SHOWING A FEW VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN TIFTON AND ASHBURN GEORGIA... MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. ELSEWHERE... A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE MACON AREA... AND EXTENDED SOUTH OVER WARNER ROBINS. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS BETWEEN MACON AND FORSYTH. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE STRONG... CAUSING HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS. THERE WAS SOME SMALL HAIL INDICATED ALSO... MAINLY IN THE STORM BETWEEN ASHBURN AND TIFTON. A FEW OTH ER THUNDERSHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING AROUND HAWKINSVILLE AND ROBERTA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 60 min |
| Jul 7, 8:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 64 min |
| Jul 7, 9:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry | 50 min |
| Jul 8, 7:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Fulton | 53 min |
| Jul 8, 7:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 53 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.