Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1993, 6:42 PM EDT for Peach County, Georgia. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1993, 6:42 PM EDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1993, 7:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Peach County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCN 272243 SVRMCN GAC225-272345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 642 PM EDT TUE JUL 27 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON GA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...PEACH COUNTY AT 640 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR FORT VALLEY...DRIFTING SOUTHWEST. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...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 27, 3:04 PM EDT, 3 hours 38 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, 3 hours 38 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. R
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 4:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 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 hour 25 minutes before
GAZ001>003-005-272230- 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.
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 5:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-272230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 530 PM EDT TUE JUL 27 1993 A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE WESTERN TIP OF SOUTH CAROLINA. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED OVER BANKS COUNTY OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MPH ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SOME SMALL HAIL. ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL GEORGIA...EASTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT0 10 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 6:32 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-272330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 630 PM EDT TUE JUL 27 1993 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA FROM NORTHWEST OF ATHENS...NEAR JEFFERSON AND EXTEND TO NEAR DAHLONEGA. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED NEAR CLAYTON IN EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SOME SMALL HAIL ARE LIKELY IN THESE AREAS. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA...EASTERN ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE AND WESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MPH.
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, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 32 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, 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 |
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.