Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1993, 5:44 PM EDT for Cobb County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 1993, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1993, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cobb County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1337 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 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 022148 SVRATL GAC067-021015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 544 PM EDT MON AUG 2 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...COBB COUNTY AT 540 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF MARIETTA. THIS STORM SHOWED LITTLE MOVEMENT. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT SOME LOCALITIES CAN EXPECT TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS AND STREET FLOODING. 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.
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, Aug 2, 3:16 PM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
GAZ004-022115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 316 PM EDT MON AUG 2 1993 AT 310 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH GUSTY WINDS ...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL JUST SOUTHEAST OF DAHLONEGA ON THE LUMPKIN...NORTH HALL COUNTY BORDER. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SEEK SHELTER. PEOPLE THROUGH NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS THUNDERSTORM AND OTHERS WHICH MAY DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 3:16 PM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
GAZ004-022115- SPECIAL WEATHER STAH OF THIS STORM BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SEEK SHELTER. PEOPLE THROUGH NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS THUNDERSTORM AND OTHERS WHICH MAY DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 4:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-022130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 435 PM EDT MON AUG 2 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO RUMBLE ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA... WEATHER RADAR IN ATHENS INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL OVER FRANKLIN...HART...HALL AND NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTIES AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED COUNTIES AS WELL THOSE IN AND NEAR THE CITIES OF GAINESVILLE AND HARTWELL SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS AND MOVE INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. ELSWHERE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA...WEST AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA AND EAST ALABAMA AND EAST TENNESSEE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE LOCATED SOUTH OF NEWBERRY SOUTH CAROLINA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 4:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-022130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 435 PM EDT MON AUG 2 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO RUMBLE ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA... WEATHER RADAR IN ATHENS INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL OVER FRANKLIN...HART...HALL AND NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTIES AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED COUNTIES AS WELL THOSE IN AND NEAR THE CITIES OF GAINESVILLE AND HARTWELL SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS AND MOVE INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. ELSWHERE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA...WEST AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA AND EAST ALABAMA AND EAST TENNESSEE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE LOCATED SOUTH OF NEWBERRY SOUTH CAROLINA. THE STORMS WERE MOV\ING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 30 min |
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.