Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1993, 6:03 PM EDT for Gilmer County, Gordon County, Pickens County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 1993, 6:03 PM EDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1993, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Pickens County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 471 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1040 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 242206 SVRATL GAC123-129-227-242230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 603 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN GILMER COUNTY...GORDON COUNTY ...NORTHERN PICKENS COUNTY AT 600 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM EAST OF CALHOUN IN GORDON COUNTY AND ANOTHER IN GILMER COUNTY SOUTH OF ELLIJAY. THESE STORMS WERE DRIFTING SOUTHEAST. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAI|L...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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 24, 4:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-242130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 430 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1993 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH GEORGIA UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...DAWSON..BANKS..HART.. TOWNS..FRANKLIN..LUMPKIN..UNION..HABERSHAM..RABUN..WHITE..HALL AND STEPHENS. AT 425 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WAS I DICATED 5 MILES WEST OF WALHALLA SOUTH CAROLINA. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WAS INDICATED OVER EAST GEORGIA 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF SYLVANIA. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO INDICATED OVER LOUISVILLE AND 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF BLUE RIDGE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 4:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-242130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 430 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1993 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH GEORGIA UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...DAWSON..BANKS..HART.. TOWNS..FRANKLIN..LUMPKIN..UNION..HABERSHAM..RABUN..WHITE..HALL AND STEPHENS. AT 425 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WAS I DICATED 5 MILES WEST OF WALHALLA SOUTH CAROLINA. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WAS INDICATED OVER EAST GEORGIA 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF SYLVANIA. SbTRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO INDICATED OVER LOUISVILLE AND 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF BLUE RIDGE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 5:20 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
GAZ008-009-242200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 520 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTH-CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 5:15 PM... RADAR WAS SHOWING THUNDERSTORMS PUSHING INTO THE SOUTHWEST PART OF TURNER COUNTY SOUTHWEST OF ASHBURN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. BECAUSE OF THE HEAT... THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME VERY STRONG IN A RATHER SHORT TIME. THESE HOT WEATHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING BRIEF BUT VERY HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WINDS... HAIL... AND POTENTIALLY DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE PRESENT MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS SHOULD BRING THEM INTO ASHBURN AND INTO SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF IRWIN AND CRISP COUNTIES BY 6PM.
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 5:22 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
GAZ008-009-242200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 520 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTH-CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 5:15 PM... RADAR WAS SHOWING THUNDERSTORMS PUSHING INTO THE SOUTHWEST PART OF TURNER COUNTY SOUTHWEST OF ASHBURN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. BECAUSE OF THE HEAT... THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME VERY STRONG IN A RATHER SHORT TIME. THESE HOT WEATHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING BRIEF BUT VERY HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WINDS... HAIL... AND POTENTIALLY DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE PRESENT MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS SHOULD BRING THEM INTO ASHBURN AND INTO SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF IRWIN AND CRISP COUNTIES BY 6PM.
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 5:35 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-242230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 535 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1993 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH GEORGIA UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...DAWSON..BANKS..HART.. TOWNS..FRANKLIN..LUMPKIN..UNION..HABERSHAM..RABUN..WHITE..HALL AND STEPHENS. AT 530 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WERE INDICATED 5 MILES WEST OF ELLIJAY...10 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELBERTON... 10 MILES EAST OF LOUISVILLE AND 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF MURPHY NORTH CAROLINA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR AND MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALLS. PERSONS IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WEATHER CONDITION THIS EVENING AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER AT THE FIRST SIGNS OF AN APPROACHING THUNDERSTORM. STAY TUNED TO N.O.A.A. WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR ANY ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 5:46 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-242230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 535 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1993 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH GEORGIA UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...DAWSON..BANKS..HART.. TOWNS..FRANKLIN..LUMPKIN..UNION..HABERSHAM..RABUN..WHITE..HALL AND STEPHENS. AT 530 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WERE INDICATED 5 MILES WEST OF ELLIJAY...10 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELBERTON... 10 MILES EAST OF LOUISVILLE AND 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF MURPHY NORTH CAROLINA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR AND MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALLS. PERSONS IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WEATHER CONDITION THIS EVENING AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK4 SAFE SHELTER AT THE FIRST SIGNS OF AN APPROACHING THUNDERSTORM. STAY TUNED TO N.O.A.A. WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR ANY ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Gordon, Murray, Pickens | 30 min |
| Jul 24, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon, Pickens | 30 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.