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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 179, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 27, 1993Baldwin County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1993, 5:18 PM EDT for Baldwin County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 27, 1993, 5:18 PM EDT (21:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 1993, 5:50 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Baldwin County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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: 1804 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 796 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 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

Special weather statement, Jul 27, 1:35 PM EDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 27, 3:04 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

GAZ005-ALZ012-272100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
304 PM EDT TUE JUL 27 1993

.....STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP OVER EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA
AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA.....

AT 255 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS FROM COLUMBUS GEORGIA EXTENDING WESTWARD
INTO PHENIX CITY ALABAMA.  MOVEMENT OF THIS ACTIVITY
WAS SLOWLY SOUTHWEST.  AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE... PERSONS
IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA CAN EXPECT STRONG
GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL AND
POSSIBLE HAIL FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL NEWS MEDIA
FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND OR WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, Jul 27, 3:04 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

GAZ005-ALZ012-272100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
304 PM EDT TUE JUL 27 1993

.....STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP OVER EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA
AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA.....

AT 255 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS FROM COLUMBUS GEORGIA EXTENDING WESTWARD
INTO PHENIX CITY ALABAMA.  MOVEMENT OF THIS ACTIVITY
WAS SLOWLY SOUTHWEST.  AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE... PERSONS
IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA CAN EXPECT STRONG
GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL AND
POSSIBLE HAIL FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL NEWS MEDIA
FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND OR WARNINGS.

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Special weather statement, Jul 27, 4:55 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

GAZ005-ALZ012-272300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
455 PM EDT TUE JUL 27 1993

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR RUSSELL COUNTY ALABAMA EXPIRES
AT 5 PM. THE STORM HAS DECREASED IN INTENSITY TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS.

AT 450 PM EDT COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THE STRONGEST STORMS NOW
IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA WERE FROM AUBURN TO 6 MILES WEST OF HURTSBORO.
SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO SCATTERED ACROSS CENTRAL RUSSELL COUNTY.
IN GEORGIA..SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL
GEORGIA FROM NORTHEAST TALBOT COUNTY TO NORTH OF BUTLER AND SCATTERED
FROM SOUTHERN MARION COUNTY TO NORTH OF LUMPKIN TO NEAR GEORGETOWN.
ALL THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

PERSONS ACROSS EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD
REMAIN ALERT FOR THESE STORMS AND BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER WHEN THEY
COME NEAR. VERY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..HEAVY RAIN AND
EVEN SOME SMALL HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. CONTIMUE TO LISTEN TO
NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, Jul 27, 5:17 PM EDT, 1 minute before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
515 PM EDT TUE JUL 27 1993

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WIDELY SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHWEST GEORGIA...

AT 510 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS
HAD DEVELOPED IN PARTS OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA. AT THAT TIME THEY WERE
WIDELY SCATTERED AND EXTENDED FROM THE ROME AND CHATSWORTH AREAS SOUTH
TO NEAR CARROLLTON AND THEN SOUTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF
THE GREATER ATLANTA METROPOLITAN AREA. STORMS WERE DRIFTING TOWARD
THE SOUTH.

DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE
ALL LIKELY WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS.

SINCE ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP ANYWHERE INZ NORTHWEST
GEORGIA THIS EVENING...PEOPLE SHOULD BE ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK
SHELTER IN A SAFE PLACE QUICKLY.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 8:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp	65 min
Jul 27, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	37 min
Jul 27, 6:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb	69 min
Jul 27, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Peach	53 min
Jul 27, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Henry	30 min
Jul 27, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Monroe	31 min
Jul 27, 7:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Fulton	25 min

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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.