Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 1993, 12:08 AM EST for Lincoln County, Wilkes County, Georgia; McCormick County, South Carolina. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 1993, 12:08 AM EST (05:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 1993, 1:15 AM EST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lincoln County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, McCormick County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 KAGS 220508 SVRAGS GAC181-317-SCC037-065-220615- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA 1208 AM EST MON FEB 22 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGU
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, 11:10 PM EST, 58 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, 56 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, 53 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
Local storm report, Feb 21, 11:27 PM EST, 41 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1120 PM EST SUN FEB 21 1993 COUNTY........ OCONEE COUNTY SOURCE........ SHERIFFS OFFICE TIME..........1020 PM EST LOCATION......DANIELLESVILLE 2ROAD TYPE STORM.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL.......... NONE DAMAGE........TREES DOWN INJURIES......NONE
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 11:40 PM EST, 28 minutes before
GAZ005-ALZ012-220645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 1140 PM EST SUN FEB 21 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 39 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR COLUMBUS GA AND PHENIX CITY AL UNTIL 3 AM EST TONIGHT... AT 1130 PM EST COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA AND GEORGIA. A SOLID AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS OCCURRING FROM MCDONOUGH TO LAGRANGE GEORGIA AND IN ALABAMA FROM JUST NORTH OF LAFAYETTE TO EAST OF ROCKFORD. THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THIS AREA FROM LAGRANGE TO NORTH OF HOGANSVILLE AND NEAR FAYETTEVILLE TO WEST OF MCDONOUGH. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING A LITTLE SOUTH OF DUE EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS NEAR THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS..BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED ALSO WITH A FEW OF THESE STORMS. PERSONS ACROSS EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CRHANGING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Local storm report, Feb 21, 11:46 PM EST, 22 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1145 PM EST SUN FEB 21 1993 COUNTY........ OCONEE COUNTY SOURCE........ HAM RADIO SPOTTER TIME..........1140 PM EST LOCATION......OCONEE COUNTY` HIGH SCHOOL TYPE STORM.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL..........GOLF BALL SIZE DAMAGE........UNKNOWN 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, 11:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Clarke, Oconee, Walton | 56 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, 12:54 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 |
| Feb 22, 12:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Edgefield | 67 min |
| Feb 22, 5:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Aiken, Barnwell | 38 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1993Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 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.