Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 1993, 5:37 AM EST for Aiken County, Barnwell County, South Carolina. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 1993, 5:37 AM EST (10:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 1993, 6:15 AM EST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Aiken County, SC, Barnwell County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 702 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 451 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 598 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAGS 221039 SVRAGS SCC003-011-221130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA 537 AM EST MON FEB 22 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA ...SOUTHWESTERN AIKEN COUNTY...BARNWELL COUNTY AT 531 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHWESTERN AIKEN COUNTY 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JACKSON SOUTH CAROLINA. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 50 MPH. THE CITY OF BARNWELL SOUTH CAROLINA IS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. 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, Feb 22, 1:12 AM EST, 4 hours 25 minutes before
GAZ006-220700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 110 AM EST MON FEB 22 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 3AM EST FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 107 AM EST... RADAR AT MACON WAS INDICATING SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF A LINE FROM LAGRANGE TO FORSYTH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM IN THE AREA WAS JUST A FEW MILES NORTH OF GRAY... ABOUT 30 MILES NORTH OF MACON. THIS STORM WAS NOT SEVERE BUT COULD PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN... AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS IT MOVES TOWARDS MILLEDGEVILLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA RADIO OR OTHER RADIO OR TV FOR POSSIBLE MESSAGES OF WARNING SHOULD THESE STORM S BECOME SEVERE.
Special weather statement, Feb 22, 1:16 AM EST, 4 hours 21 minutes before
GAZ003>005-220730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 115 AM EST MON FEB 22 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 39 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 3 AM EST... AT 110 AM RADAR SHOWED A 50 MILE WIND BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. THIS AREA EXTENDED FROM THE LAGRANGE AND NEWNAN VICINTIES EAST NORTHEAST THROUGH FORSYTH AND CONVINGTON TO THE LINCOLNTON GEORGIA AREA. THESES SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE RAPIDLY EASTWARD AT NEARLY 70 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA WERE NEAR FAYETTEVILLE...NEAR WOODBURY...AND NEAR JACKSON. THESE THUNDER- STORMS MAY CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD INTENSIFY AT ANY TIME. PERSONS IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, Feb 22, 2:25 AM EST, 3 hours 12 minutes before
GAZ004-220830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 220 AM EST MON FEB 22 1993 A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING NORTHEAST GEORGIA COUNTIES: ...NEWTON...MORGAN...GREENE AND TALIAFERRO... THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO EFFECT AREAS SOUTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST OF ATHENS. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER INCLUDING DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS. IN CASE OF SEVERE WEATHER... TORNADOES MAY FORM WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING.
Special weather statement, Feb 22, 2:25 AM EST, 3 hours 12 minutes before
GAZ005-ALZ012-220645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 225 AM EST MON FEB 22 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 39 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR COLUMBUS GA AND PHENIX CITY AL UNTIL 3 AM EST TONIGHT... AT 215 AM EST COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING ACROSS EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. A SOLID LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS OCCURRING FROM NEAR MEWNAN TO LAGRANGE GEORGIA TO CAMPH HILL ALABAMA AND JUST SOUTH OF TUSKEGEE ALABAMA.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 CHANGING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Local storm report, Feb 22, 4:34 AM EST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON, GA 435 AM EST MON FEB 22 1993 ...PRELIMINARY INFORMATION ONLY...REPORTS MAY BE INCOMPLETE... COUNTY..... FIRS 207 SOURCE..... MONROE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE. TIME....... 0345 EST 2/22/93 LOCATION... I475 NORTHBOUND SIDE NEAR FORSYTH. TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WIDTH...... N/A LENGTH..... N/A HAIL....... N/A DAMAGE..... N/A TREES...... LARGE TREE DOWN ACROSS INTERSTATE. INJURIE S... NONE. COST....... UNKNOWN.
Special weather statement, Feb 22, 5:11 AM EST, 26 minutes before
GAZ005-008-011-012-221215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 506 AM EST MON FEB 22 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST FOR PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA... AT 503 AM EST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR MACON IN CENTRAL GEORGIA TO NEAR EUFALA IN EXTREME EASTERN ALABAMA. ANOTHER LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM NEAR TIFTON TO NEAR PELHAM IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA. ALL SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN WEST CENTRAL..SOUTHWESTERN AND SOUTHCENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. TJHEY MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN..LIGHTNING..GUSTY WIND AND POSSIBLY HAIL. STAY INDOORS IF A STORM APPROACHES AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 11:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | McCormick | 49 min |
| Feb 22, 12:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | McCormick | 67 min |
| Feb 22, 12:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Edgefield | 67 min |
Nearby
Severe 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.