Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 12, 1993, 1:16 AM EST for Butts County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 12, 1993, 1:16 AM EST (06:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 12, 1993, 1:45 AM EST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butts County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 120619 SVRATL GAC035-120645- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 116 AM EST FRI FEB 12 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...BUTTS COUNTY AT 120 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN BUTTS COUNTY NEAR JACKSON. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT SPEEDS NEAR 35 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL AND HIGH WINDS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. &
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, Feb 11, 11:10 PM EST, 2 hours 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1110 PM EST THU FEB 11 1993 ...DENSE FOG FORMING ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA... DENSE FOG CONTINUES TO FORM ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA. STATE PATROL OFFICES REPORT PATCHY DENSE FOG IN ALL SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THE FOG IS REDUCING THE VISIBILITY TO NEAR ZERO IN MANY PLACES. THE DENSE FOG WILL REMAIN THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. THE VISIBILITY WILL BEGIN TO INCREASE AFTER SUNRISE FRIDAY MORNING. MOTORIST ARE URGED TO DRIVE WITH CAUTION AND ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO REACH THEIR DESTIONATION.
Special weather statement, Feb 11, 11:45 PM EST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
GAZ005-120600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 1145 PM EST THU FEB 11 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING WESTCENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 1145 PM EST WEATHER RADAR IN ATLANTA INDICATED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CROSSING THE ALABAMA BORDER INTO WESTCENTRAL GEORGIA. ONE STRONG STORM NEAR LA GRANGE MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST THROUGH TROUP AND MERIWETHER COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVdY RAIN WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THIS STORM AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
Special weather statement, Feb 12, 1:01 AM EST, 15 minutes before
GAZ003-120700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 100 AM EST FRI FEB 12 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 100 AM RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST CELLS WERE IN WEST PIKE COUNTY AND MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. THEY WILL BE ENTERING SOUTH SPALDING ...LAMAR...UPSON AND NORTH UPSON COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. GUSTY WINDS...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND SOME HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS THESE COUNTIES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 1:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Pike | 54 min |
| Feb 12, 1:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 64 min |
| Feb 12, 1:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 66 min |
| Feb 12, 2:02 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 43 min |
| Feb 12, 2:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Putnam | 36 min |
| Feb 12, 2:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan | 46 min |
| Feb 12, 2:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 25 min |
| Feb 12, 2:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Hancock, Warren | 51 min |
| Feb 12, 2:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro | 38 min |
| Feb 12, 3:43 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lincoln | 47 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.