Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 231, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 20, 1993, 6:02 PM EDT for Dooly County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 20, 1993, 6:02 PM EDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 20, 1993, 6:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dooly County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 1054 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMCN 202202 RRA SVRMCN GAC093-202300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 602 PM EDT MON SEP 20 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON GA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...DOOLY COUNTY AT 600 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF MONTEZUMA IN MACON COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST TOWARD DOOLY COUNTY AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. IT WILL PASS THROUGH OR NEAR THE TOWNS OF DOOLING.. BYROMVILLE..AND PINEHURST WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. 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, Sep 20, 4:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-202150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 450 PM EDT MON SEP 20 1993 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW STRONG AND CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL WERE INDICATED OVER GEORGIA EXTENDING FROM MOSTLY FROM NEAR ATLANTA...COMMERCE AND ATHENS SOUTH TO NEAR COLUMBUS. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED NEAR BLAIRSVILLE AND DAHLONEGA ...ALSO NEAR WAYNESBORO...JUST SOUTH OF AUGUSTA. ELSEWHERE OVER NORTH GEORGIA...SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE INDCATED AND EXTENDED INTO SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE AND WEST NORTH CAROLINA. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY OF THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE AWARE OF POSSIBLE ROAD...SMALL STREAM AND LOW LYING AREA FLOODING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WRE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Sep 20, 4:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-202150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 450 PM EDT MON SEP 20 1993 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW STRONG AND CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL WERE INDICATED OVER GEORGIA EXTENDING FROM MOSTLY FROM NEAR ATLANTA...COMMERCE AND ATHENS SOUTH TO NEAR COLUMBUS. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED NEAR BLAIRSVILLE AND DAHLONEGA ...ALSO NEAR WAYNESBORO...JUST SOUTH OF AUGUSTA. ELSEWHERE OVER NORTH GEORGIA...SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE INDCATED AND EXTENDED INTO SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE AND WEST NORTH CAROLINA. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY OF THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE AWARE OF POSSIBLE ROAD...SMALL STREAM AND LOW LYING AREA FLOODING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WRE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Sep 20, 5:43 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
GAZ005-006-202245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 543 PM EDT MON SEP 20 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 540 PM EDT SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA 7 MILES NORTH OF ELLAVILLE...6 MILES WEST OF BUENA VISTA...AND 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LUMPKIN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS NEAR THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. YOU SHOULD BE READY TO SEEK QUICK SHELTER WHEN THESE STORMS COME NEAR. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Sep 20, 5:45 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
GAZ005-006-202245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 543 PM EDT MON SEP 20 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 540 PM EDT SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA 7 MILES NORTH OF ELLAVILLE...6 MILES WEST OF BUENA VISTA...AND 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LUMPKIN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS NEAR THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS..DANGEROUS. LIGHTNING..HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. YOU SHOULD BE READY TO SEEK QUICK SHELTER WHEN THESE STORMS COME NEAR. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Sep 20, 5:50 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
GAZ006-202300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 550 PM EDT MON SEP 20 1993 AT 545 PM MACON RADAR SAW TWO LARGE THUNDERSTORMS IN A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAD MOVED RAPIDLY THROUGH CENTRAL GEORGIA IN THE PAST HOUR. ONE VERY LARGE STORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF MACON ON THE BIBB/MONROE COUNTY LINE MOVING INTO JONES COUNTY. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAY IN JONES COUNTY. THEY WERE MOVING EAST 25 MILES AN HOUR. BOTH THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE BRIEF LOW AREA FLOODING AND WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MILES AN HOUR ALONG WITH FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO THIS RADIO FOR POSSIBLE UPDATES OR WARNINGS IF THESE STORMS INTENSIFY.
Special weather statement, Sep 20, 5:53 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
GAZ006-202300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 550 PM EDT MON SEP 20 1993 AT 545 PM MACON RADAR SAW TWO LARGE THUNDERSTORMS IN A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAD MOVED RAPIDLY THROUGH CENTRAL GEORGIA IN THE PAST HOUR. ONE VERY LARGE STORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF MACON ON THE BIBB/MONROE COUNTY LINE MOVING INTO JONES COUNTY. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAY IN JONES COUNTY. THEY WERE MOVING EAST 25 MILES AN HOUR. BOTH THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE BRIEF LOW AREA FLOODING AND WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MILES AN HOUR ALONG WITH FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO THIS RADIO FOR POSSIBLE UPDATES OR WARNINGS IF THESE DSTORMS INTENSIFY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 41 min |
| Sep 20, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 54 min |
| Sep 20, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 54 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.