Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 1993, 4:07 PM EDT for Bibb County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 1993, 4:07 PM EDT (20:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 1993, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bibb County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 820 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCN 062007 RRA SVRMCN GAC021-062115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 407 PM EDT FRI AUG 6 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON GA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...BIBB COUNTY AT 405 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR MACON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. 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 6, 2:01 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
GAZ006-009-061900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 205 PM EDT WED AUG 6 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS MIDDLE GEORGIA... AT 2:00 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 VIENNA IN DOOLY COUNTY. MOVEMENT HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED. RADAR SHOWED THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL TO BE AROUND COCHRAN AND HAWKINSVILLE AND A FEW MILES SOUTH OF UNADILLA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN THE HIGH HUMIDITY AND HEAT THIS AFTERNOON. MIDDLE GEORGIA RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF STRON&G WINDS... HEAVY RAIN... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING FROM THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 2:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
GAZ006-009-061900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 205 PM EDT WED AUG 6 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS MIDDLE GEORGIA... AT 2:00 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 VIENNA IN DOOLY COUNTY. MOVEMENT HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED. RADAR SHOWED THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL TO BE AROUND COCHRAN AND HAWKINSVILLE AND A FEW MILES SOUTH OF UNADILLA. 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.
Local storm report, Aug 6, 2:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 217 PM EDT FRI AUG 6 1993 COUNTY.....HOUSTON FIRS 153 SOURCE.....FLINT EMC AND HOUSTON COUNTY 911 TIME.......1:00 PM LOCATION...WARNER ROBINS/CENTERVILLE AREA TYPE STORM.SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL.......NONE REPORTED. DAMAGE.....TREES DOWN AND TWO POWER POLES SNAPPED AT DUNBAR ROAD.
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 3:08 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
GAZ006-009-062030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 310 PM EDT WED AUG 6 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS MIDDLE GEORGIA... AT 3:05 PM... RADAR WAS SHOWING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS... MOSTLY IN THE AREA SOUTH OF MACON FROM FORT VALLEY ACROSS HOUSTON COUNTY TO SOUTHERN TWIGGS COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. RADAR SHOWED THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL TO BE BETWEEN PERRY AND WARNER ROBINS IN HOUSTON COUNTY. 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 6, 3:10 PM EDT, 57 minutes before
GAZ006-009-062030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 310 PM EDT WED AUG 6 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS MIDDLE GEORGIA... AT 3:05 PM... RADAR WAS SHOWING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS... MOSTLY IN THE AREA SOUTH OF MACON FROM FORT VALLEY ACROSS HOUSTON COUNTY TO SOUTHERN TWIGGS COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. RADAR SHOWED THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL TO BE BETWEEN PERRY AND WARNER ROBINS IN HOUSTON COUNTY. 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.
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.