Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1993, 6:40 PM EDT for Butts County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 1993, 6:40 PM EDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1993, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butts County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 688 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1476 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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 282242 SVRATL GAC035-282315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 640 PM EDT WED JUL 28 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...BUTTS COUNTY AT 640 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR JACKSON. THIS STORM WAS 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 28, 2:43 PM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-281930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ...CORRECTION TO DATE... TEXT UNCHANGED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 135 PM EDT WED JUL 28 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHERN-MIDDLE GEORGIA... AT 1:30 PM... RADAR INDICATED A SMALL GROUP OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER IRWIN AND BEN HILL COUNTIES... ABOUT 70 MILES SOUTH OF MACON. THE STORMS HAVE NOT YET ESTABLISHED A MOVEMENT. THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON IN CENTRAL GEORGIA WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND A LOT OF LIGHTNING. SMALL HAIL MAY FALL FROM THE LARGER STORMS. SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL CAUSE SOME AREAS TO GET A LOT OF RAIN IN JUST A SHORT TIME. THIS WILL CAUSE MINOR STREET FzLOODING... AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IN PLACES CAUGHT IN HEAVY DOWNPOURS.
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 2:50 PM EDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
GAZ008-011-281945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 243 PM EDT WED JUL 28 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWEST GEORGIA... AT 240 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT COLUMBUS INDICATED NUMEROUS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED FIVE MILES EAST OF LEESBURG AND 5 MILES EAST OF BENEVOLENCE IN RANDOLPH COUNTY. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. EXPECT SOME THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS...ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND TELEPHONES. LISTEN FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 3:57 PM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
GAZ004-282200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 357 PM EDT WED JUL 28 1993 AT 355 PM EDT AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WITH POSSIBLE HAIL WAS INDICATED BY RADAR IN TALIAFERRO COUNTY...27 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ATHENS. THE STORM WAS STATIONARY. PERSONS IN TALIAFERRO COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOUR. HEAVY DOWNPOURS... DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 3:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
GAZ004-282200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 357 PM EDT WED JUL 28 1993 AT 355 PM EDT AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WITH POSSIBLE HAIL WAS INDICATED BY RADAR IN TALIAFERRO COUNTY...27 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ATHENS. THE STORM WAS STATIONARY. PERSONS IN TALIAFERRO COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOUR. HEAVY DOWNPOURS... DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 4:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-282130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 430 PM EDT WED JUL 28 1993 RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST OF ATHENS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. ELSEWHERE...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF GEORGIA AND EXTENDED INTO CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE NOTED OVER EAST TENNESSEE AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOWED LITTLE OR NO MOVEMENT.
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 4:36 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-282130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 430 PM EDT WED JUL 28 1993 RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST OF ATHENS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. ELSEWHERE...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS..x.SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF GEORGIA AND EXTENDED INTO CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE NOTED OVER EAST TENNESSEE AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOWED LITTLE OR NO MOVEMENT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 8:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 24 min |
| Jul 27, 8:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fulton | 39 min |
| Jul 27, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 31 min |
| Jul 27, 8:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 37 min |
| Jul 27, 9:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 29 min |
| Jul 28, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 57 min |
| Jul 28, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 58 min |
| Jul 28, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 61 min |
| Jul 28, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford | 62 min |
| Jul 28, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 62 min |
| Jul 28, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Spalding | 24 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.