Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1993, 2:24 PM EDT for Edgefield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 1993, 2:24 PM EDT (18:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1993, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Edgefield County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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 KAGS 041827 RRA SVRAGS GAC181-SCC037-065-041915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA 224 PM EDT WED AUG 4 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA ...EDGEFIELD COUNTY...SOUTHERN MCCORMICK COUNTY AT 220 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATES A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY, GEORGIA...THE STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH... 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, Aug 4, 1:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 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, 1 hour 18 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 | McCormick | 51 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.