Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1993, 7:37 PM EDT for Coweta County, Georgia. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1993, 7:37 PM EDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1993, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Coweta County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 658 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1392 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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, Jul 8, 5:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
ALZ012-090000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 555 PM EDT THU JUL 8 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS RUSSELL COUNTY ALABAMA... AT 552 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS RUSSELL COUNTY ALABAMA. THE STORM WAS NEAR SEALE AND MOVING WEST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE IN RUSSELL COUNTY AND ACROSS THE REST OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA SHOULD TAKE COVER UNTIL THUNDERSTORMS PASS. MOVE INDOORRS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS AS THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN..LIGHTNING..GUSTY WIND..AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. LISTERN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Local storm report, Jul 8, 5:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 600 PM EDT THU JUL 8 1993 REPORT FROM JULY 7, 1993 COUNTY..... IRWIN SOURCE..... SHERIFFS OFFICE TIME....... 7:00 PM LOCATION... WREN COMMUNITY TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL....... NONE DAMAGE..... MANY TREES DOWN, TRUCK BLOWN OFF ROAD. INJURIES... NONE COST....... UNKN THIS IS A CLARIFICATION OF REPORT FROM LAST NIGHT - 7/7/93 UPON INVESTIGATION AT THE SCENE STORM WAS DETERMINED TTO BE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM-DOWNBURST WINDS EVENT. TORNADIC-TYPE DAMAGE WAS NOT APPARENT.
Local storm report, Jul 8, 6:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT ...CORRET NAME OF TOWN... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 600 PM EDT THU JUL 8 1993 REPORT FROM JULY 7, 1993 COUNTY..... IRWIN SOURCE..... SHERIFFS OFFICE TIME....... 7:00 PM LOCATION... WRAY COMMUNITY TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL....... NONE DAMAGE..... MANY TREES DOWN, TRUCK BLOWN OFF ROAD. INJURIES... NONE COST....... UNKN THIS IS A CLARIFICATION OF REPORT FROM LAST NIGHT - 7/7/93 UPON INVESTIGATION AT THE SCENE STORM WAS DETERMINED TO BE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM-DOWNBURST WINDS EVENT. TORNADIC-TYPE DAMAGE WAS NOT APPARENT.
Local storm report, Jul 8, 6:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT ...CORRET NAME OF TOWN... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 600 PM EDT THU JUL 8 1993 REPORT FROM JULY 7, 1993 COUNTY..... IRWIN SOURCE..... SHERIFFS OFFICE TIME....... 7:00 PM LOCATION... WRAY COMMUNITY TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL....... NONE DAMAGE..... MANY TREES DOWN, TRUCK BLOWN OFF ROAD. INJURIES... NONE COST....... UNKN THIS IS A CLARIFICATION OF REPORT FROM LAST NIGHT - 7/7/93 UPON INVESTIGATION AT THE SCENE STORM WAS DETERMINED TO BE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM-DOWNBURST WINDS EVENT. TORNADIC-TYPE DAMAGE WAS NOT APPARENT.
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 7:08 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
GAZ003-005-082359- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 710 PM EDT THU JUL 8 1993 WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA EARLY THIS EVENING. AT 7 PM EDT SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS WERE OCCURRING NORTH AND WEST OF THE CITY OF ATLANTA FROM NEAR LAKE ALLATOONA SOUTH TO NEAR FAIRBURN AND WEST TO THE ALABAMA BORDER NEAR CARROLLTON AND FRANKLIN. ANOTHER VERY STRONG STORM WAS NEAR COVINGTON. MANY OF THE STORMS WERE DRIFTING SOUTHWEST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. THEY ARE PRODUCING DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN... AND POSSIBLY STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS.
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 7:10 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
GAZ003-005-082359- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 710 PM EDT THU JUL 8 1993 WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA EARLY THIS EVENING. AT 7 PM EDT SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS WERE OCCURRING NORTH AND WEST OF THE CITY OF ATLANTA FROM NEAR LAKE ALLATOONA SOUTH TO NEAR FAIRBURN AND WEST TO THE ALABAMA BORDER NEAR CARROLLTON AND FRANKLIN. ANOTHER VERY STRONG STORM WAS NEAR COVINGTON. MANY OF THE STORMS WERE DRIFTING SOUTHWEST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. THEY ARE PRODUCING DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN... AND POSSIBLY STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS.
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, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 26 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 |
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.