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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 160, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 19, 1993Allendale County, South Carolina

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1993, 7:07 PM EDT for Allendale County, South Carolina. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 19, 1993, 7:07 PM EDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 1993, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Allendale County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 209 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: 973 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1171 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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

Local storm report, Jul 19, 6:26 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
625 PM EDT THU JUL 19 1993

COUNTY..... LAURENS
SOURCE..... SHERIFFS OFFICE
TIME....... 3:20 PM EDT
LOCATION... CADWELL GA
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
HAIL....... PEA SIZE
DAMAGE..... TREES DOWN ACROSS COUNTY ROAD NORTH OF CITY.

Local storm report, Jul 19, 6:29 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
630 PM EDT THU JUL 19 1993

COUNTY..... WILKINSON
SOURCE..... OCONEE EMC
TIME....... 3:10 PM EDT
LOCATION... NEAR GORDON GA AND IVEY COMMUNITY
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
HAIL....... NONE REPORTED
DAMAGE..... POWER LINES AND TREES BLOWN DOWN.

Local storm report, Jul 19, 6:32 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
633 PM EDT THU JUL 19 1993

COUNTY..... TWIGGS
SOURCE..... OCONEE EMC
TIME....... 4:05 PM EDT
LOCATION... DRY BRANCH AND BULLARD COMMUNITIES NORTHERN TWIGGS
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
HAIL....... NONE REPORTED
DAMAGE..... POWER LINES AND TREES BLOWN DOWN.

Local storm report, Jul 19, 6:33 PM EDT, 34 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
633 PM EDT THU JUL 19 1993

COUNTY..... TWIGGS
SOURCE..... OCONEE EMC
TIME....... 4:05 PM EDT
LOCATION... DRY BRANCH AND BULLARD COMMUNITIES NORTHERN TWIGGS
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
HAIL....... NONE REPORTED
DAMAGE..... POWER LINES AND TREES BLOWN DOWN.

Local storm report, Jul 19, 6:39 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
640 PM EDT THU JUL 19 1993

COUNTY..... DODGE
SOURCE..... OCMULGEE EMC
TIME....... 4:00 PM EDT
LOCATION... 5 NORTH OF EASTMAN
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
HAIL....... NONE REPORTED
DAMAGE..... POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN. LARGE TREE LIMBS BLOWN
            ACROSS COUNTY HIGHWAY 23.

Local storm report, Jul 19, 6:40 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
640 PM EDT THU JUL 19 1993

COUNTY..... DODGE
SOURCE..... OCMULGEE EMC
TIME....... 4:00 PM EDT
LOCATION... 5 NORTH OF EASTMAN
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
HAIL....... NONE REPORTED
DAMAGE..... POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN. LARGE TREE LIMBS BLOWN
            ACROSS COUNTY HIGHWAY 23.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	64 min
Jul 19, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin	34 min
Jul 19, 2:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilkinson	69 min
Jul 19, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge	65 min
Jul 19, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pulaski	62 min
Jul 19, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Burke	45 min
Jul 19, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barnwell	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1993 Every 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.