Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 208, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1993, 1:30 PM EDT for Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 1993, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1993, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Laurens County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 985 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 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 041731 RRA SVRMCN GAC175-041830- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 130 PM EDT WED AUG 4 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON GA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...LAURENS COUNTY AT 1:28 PM... RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE EXTREME NORTHWEST CORNER OF LAURENS COUNTY NEAR MONTROSE AND DUDLEY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 4, 1:05 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
GAZ006-009-041830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 105 PM EDT WED AUG 4 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS MIDDLE GEORGIA... AT 1:00 PM... RADAR WAS SHOWING A NEWLY FORMED LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS REACHING ACROSS MIDDLE GEORGIA FROM DUDLEY AND DUBLIN IN NORTHERN LAURENS COUNTY OVER HAWKINSVILLE IN NORTHERN PUALSKI COUNTY TO NEAR UNADILLA IN NORTHERN DOOLY COUNTY. THE STORMS APPEARED TO BE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. RADAR SHOWED THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL TO BE AROUND COCHRAN AND HAWKINSVILLE AND A FEW MILES WEST OF DUDLEY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN THE HIGH HUMIDITY AND HEAT THIS AFTERNOON. MIDDLE GEORGIA RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF STRONG WINDS... HEAVY RAIN... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING FROM THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 1:06 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
GAZ006-009-041830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 105 PM EDT WED AUG 4 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS MIDDLE GEORGIA... AT 1:00 PM... RADAR WAS SHOWING A NEWLY FORMED LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS REACHING ACROSS MIDDLE GEORGIA FROM DUDLEY AND DUBLIN IN NORTHERN LAURENS COUNTY OVER HAWKINSVILLE IN NORTHERN PUALSKI COUNTY TO NEAR UNADILLA IN NORTHERN DOOLY COUNTY. THE STORMS APPEARED TO BE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. RADAR SHOWED THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL TO BE AROUND COCHRAN AND HAWKINSVILLE AND A FEW MILES WEST OF DUDLEY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN THE HIGH HUMIDITY AND HEAT THIS AFTERNOON. MIDDLE GEORGIA RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE PO(SSIBILITY OF STRONG WINDS... HEAVY RAIN... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING FROM THESE STORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lincoln | 51 min |
| Aug 4, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 52 min |
| Aug 4, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Richmond | 62 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.