Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 21, 1993, 11:19 PM EST for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 21, 1993, 11:19 PM EST (04:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 1993, 12:15 AM EST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barrow County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Walton County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 25 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 478 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 577 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAHN 220421 SVRAHN GAC013-059-219-297-220515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1119 PM EST SUN FEB 21 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATHENS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...BARROW COUNTY...CLARKE COUNTY...OCONEE COUNTY ...WALTON COUNTY AT 1120 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST AT 60 MILES AN HOUR INTO THESE COUNTIES. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNI NG. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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
Local storm report, Feb 21, 10:09 PM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1005 PM EST SUN FEB 21 1993 COUNTY........ HABERSHAM COUNTY SOURCE........ HABERSHAM COUNTY CD TIME.......... 935 PM EST LOCATION...... WESTERNT HABERSHAM COUNTY TYPE STORM.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL.......... SMALL HAIL DAMAGE........ WINDOWS BLOWN OUT OF MOBILE HOME INJURIES...... NONE REPORTED AT THIS TIME
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 10:49 PM EST, 30 minutes before
GAZ001>007-220600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 1030 PM EST SUN FEB 21 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 38 FOR NORTH GEORGIA HAS BEEN CANCELLED... ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 39 IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 3 AM EST... TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 38 WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND REPLACED BY TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 39. THIS NEW WATCH INCLUDES PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. AN AREA OF RAIN AND A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR ANNISTON ALABAMA ACROSS THE ATLANTA AREA...EASTWARD TO ATHENS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN THE AREAS FROM MARIETTA IN COBB COUNTY TO LITHONIA IN DEKALB COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD INTENSIFY AT ANY TIME. PERSONS IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 10:55 PM EST, 24 minutes before
GAZ006-220500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 1054 PM EST SUN FEB 21 1993 SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR SEVERAL MIDDLE GEORGIA COUNTIES INCLUDING JASPER..PUTNAM..MONROE..JONES..BALDWIN..CRAWFORD..BIBB..TWIGGS.. AND WILKINSON. AT 1050 PM RADAR IN MACON SHOWED A BROAD CURVED LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS SOME OF WHICH WERE NEAR SEVERE INTENSITY. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM ATHENS WEST TO THE ATLANTA METROPLEX THEN SOUTHWEST TO JUST NORTH OF LAGRANGE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR WITH SOME STORMS MOVING SOUTHEAST NEAR 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WILL BE IN PUTNAM COUNTY WITHIN AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA RADIO OR OTHER RADIO OR TV FOR POSSIBLE MESSAGES OF WARNING SHOULD THESE STORMS BECOME SEVERE.
Local storm report, Feb 21, 11:10 PM EST, 9 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1105 PM EST SUN FEB 21 1993 COUNTY........ HALL COUNTY SOURCE........ HAM RADIO SPOTTER TIME.......... 1010 PM EST LOCATION...... OAKWOOD...NEAR GAINSVILLE TYPE STORM.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL.......... SMALL HAIL DAMAGE........SEVERAL BLDGS DAMAGED...ONE LARGE BUILDING DESTROYED INJURIES......INJURIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED...EXTENT UNKNOWN
Local storm report, Feb 21, 11:12 PM EST, 7 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1108 PM EST SUN FEB 21 1993 COUNTY........ CLARKE COUNTY SOURCE........ HAM RADIO SPOTTER TIME..........1030 PM EST LOCATION...... HWY 153 8 MILES SOUTH OF ATHENS TYPE STORM.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL.......... SMALL HAIL DAMAGE........TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN. INJURIES......NONE
Local storm report, Feb 21, 11:15 PM EST, 4 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1110 PM EST SUN FEB 21 1993 COUNTY........WALTON COUNTY SOURCE........ HAM RADIO SPOTTER TIME..........1030 PM EST LOCATION......HWY 138 NEAR MONROE TYPE STORM.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL.......... SMALL HAIL DAMAGE........POWER LINES DOWN...SMALL BLDGS DAMAGED INJURIES......NONE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 8:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 39 min |
| Feb 21, 8:34 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Paulding | 41 min |
| Feb 21, 9:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb | 54 min |
| Feb 21, 9:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Habersham, White | 60 min |
| Feb 21, 9:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stephens | 60 min |
| Feb 21, 9:32 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett | 58 min |
| Feb 21, 9:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Hall, Jackson | 57 min |
| Feb 21, 9:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee, Walton | 57 min |
| Feb 21, 10:01 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Paulding | 29 min |
| Feb 21, 10:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe | 64 min |
| Feb 21, 11:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 36 min |
| Feb 21, 11:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lincoln | 49 min |
| Feb 21, 11:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 49 min |
| Feb 21, 11:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 31 min |
| Feb 21, 11:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 45 min |
| Feb 21, 11:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan, Newton | 66 min |
| Feb 21, 11:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 43 min |
| Feb 22, 12:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lincoln, Wilkes | 67 min |
| Feb 22, 12:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Taliaferro | 36 min |
| Feb 22, 1:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones | 52 min |
| Feb 22, 2:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 42 min |
| Feb 22, 2:38 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike | 37 min |
| Feb 22, 2:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Hancock, Warren | 52 min |
| Feb 22, 3:07 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lamar, Meriwether, Pike, Upson | 53 min |
| Feb 22, 3:35 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 25 min |
| Feb 22, 4:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 40 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.