Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1993, 4:14 PM EDT for Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 1993, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 1993, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fulton County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 882 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1096 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 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 KATL 262014 SVRFFC GAC121-262045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 414 PM EDT MON JUL 26 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN FULTON COUNTY AT 410 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NORTHWEST OF FAIRBURN IN SOUTHERN FULTON COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS WEST SOUTHWEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW! SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. WJZ
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 26, 1:18 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
GAZ001-003-005-262000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 118 PM EDT MON JUL 26 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 115 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS WERE OVER FORSYTH COUNTY NEAR CUMMING AND OVER THE CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER NEAR THE DOUGLAS COUNTY - FULTON COUNTY LINE. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS NOTED WITH THESE STORMS... SO FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 1:19 PM EDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
GAZ001-003-005-262000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 118 PM EDT MON JUL 26 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 115 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS WERE OVER FORSYTH COUNTY NEAR CUMMING AND OVER THE CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER NEAR THE DOUGLAS COUNTY - FULTON COUNTY LINE. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS NOTED WITH THESE STORMS... SO FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS ARE ALSlO POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 2:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
GAZ001-003-005-262100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 220 PM EDT MON JUL 26 1993 ...WIDELY SCATTERED BUT INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON... AT 215 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST AND NORTHCENTRAL GEORGIA. ONE INTENSE STORM WAS OVER SOUTHERN DEKALB COUNTY WHILE ANOTHER CLUSTER WAS OVER FAYETTE COUNTY NEAR PEACHTREE CITY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY PASS OVERHEAD. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. . ZALESKI &gf6WWUS S6WWUS J>0 WUUS G>6WWUS [AWWUS 8Z&6WWUS `[I6WWUS SHOWERS. .TUE.WIND 15 TO 25 KTAVG SEAS 3 TO 6 VSBY 1 TO 3 MILN AREAS OF FOGXWOUS VQ6WWUS g_ WUUS lK0 WUUS w WUUS V6WWUS. $jyWWUSh 0MWWUS" o6WWUS <ZF6WWUS UGH FRI
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 3:20 PM EDT, 54 minutes before
GAZ001-003-005-262100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 220 PM EDT MON JUL 26 1993 ...WIDELY SCATTERED BUT INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON... AT 215 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST AND NORTHCENTRAL GEORGIA. ONE INTENSE STORM WAS OVER SOUTHERN DEKALB COUNTY WHILE ANOTHER CLUSTER WAS OVER FAYETTE COUNTY NEAR PEACHTREE CITY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY PASS OVERHEAD. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. . ZALESKI
Nearby
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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.