Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 1993, 10:02 AM EST for Henry County, Spalding County, Georgia. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 1993, 10:02 AM EST (15:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 1993, 11:00 AM EST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Henry County, GA, Spalding County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 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 KATL 311503 SVRATL GAC151-255-311600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 1002 AM EST WED MAR 31 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...HENRY COUNTY...SPALDING COUNTY AT 10 AM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN ATLANTA WAS SHOWING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED JUST NORTH OF GRIFFIN IN SPALDING COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO THE HAMPTON AND MCDONOUGH AREAS WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED SMALL HAIL DURING THE PAST HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. &
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, Mar 31, 6:06 AM EST, 3 hours 56 minutes before
GAZ005-008-011-ALZ012-GAZ012-006-311315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 606 AM EST WED MAR 31 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 84 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9AM... WEATHER RADAR IN COLUMBUS INDICATED A VERY LARGE AREA OF HEAVY RAINS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS COVERING AN AREA FROM NEAR ELBA ALABAMA TO LA GRANGE TO ATLANTA TO MACON AND SOUTHWARD TO EUFAULA ALABAMA. THE MOST NOTABLE POINTS WERE SEALE ALABAMA...COLUMBUS AND JUST SOUTH OF HAMILTON GEORGIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALLS...HAIL...LIGHTNING AND STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE STATE. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IS A STRONG POSSIBILITY DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINS. THERE IS A STRONG LIKELIHOOD THAT SEVERE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS AND THE REST OF THE DAY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 31, 6:11 AM EST, 3 hours 51 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-311200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 608 AM EST WED MAR 31 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MACON COUNTY UNTIL 9 AM EST... AT 600 AM EST RADAR SHOWED THAT A BROAD AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS HAD SPREAD ACROSS MOST OF THE NORTH HALF OF CENTRAL GEORGIA. MACON AND THE WARNER ROBINS VICINITY HAD THUNDERSTORMS. THE STORMS WERE CLUSTERED FROM 8 MILES SOUTH TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MACON AND WERE MOVING NORTHEAST 25 MILES AN HOUR. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS AS YET BEEN REPORTED IN OR NEAR MIDDLE GEORGIA BUT BE ADVISED ANY OF THE STORMS IN THE AREA COULD BECOME SEVERE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR PROGRESS REPORTS ON THE STORM ACTIVITY AND WARNINGS WHEN NECESSARY.
Local storm report, Mar 31, 6:36 AM EST, 3 hours 26 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 630 AM EST WED MAR 31 1993 COUNTY..... CARROLL COUNTY TYPE....... HAIL...BRIEF HAIL SHOWER...LARGEST STONES 1/2 INCH DIAMETER. SOURCE..... OFF DUTY: WEATHER OBSERVER. TIME....... 550 AM EST 3/31/93 LOCATION... SOUTHEAST OF CARROLLTON DAMAGE..... NONE.
Special weather statement, Mar 31, 7:55 AM EST, 2 hours 7 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-311400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 800 AM EST WED MAR 31 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MACON COUNTY UNTIL 9 AM EST... AT 750 AM EST RADAR SHOWED THAT A BROAD AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS HAD SPREAD ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED IN MONROE COUNTY WEST OF BOLINGBROKE AND EXTENDED SOUTH TO NEAR FORT VALLEY GEORGIA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. HEAVY RAINFALL..GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL MAY BE PRODUCED BY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS MORNING. PERSONS IN OR NEAR THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE INDOORS UNTIL THEY PASS OUT OF YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Mar 31, 9:23 AM EST, 39 minutes before
GAZ005-008-011-ALZ012-GAZ012-006-311630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 924 AM EST WED MAR 31 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM FOR WEST CENTRAL..SOUTHWEST..AND SOUTHCENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 920 EST WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN THE CITIES OF COLUMBUS.. MACON AND ALBANY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE NEAR MACON AND TIFTON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. PEOPLE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL..SOUTHWEST..AND SOUTHCENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE MORNING FOR APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WIND..HAIL AND POSSIBLY TORNADOS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 31, 9:52 AM EST, 10 minutes before
GAZ003-311600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 951 AM EST WED MAR 31 1993 AT 9:48 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST MERIWETHER COUNTY... NEAR GRIFFIN IN SPALDING COUNTY AND NEAR MCDONOUGH IN HENRY COUNTY. THE STORMS MAY BE BE ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 8:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 47 min |
| Mar 31, 9:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford | 19 min |
| Mar 31, 2:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 43 min |
| Mar 31, 3:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson | 44 min |
| Mar 31, 3:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 53 min |
| Mar 31, 3:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 47 min |
| Mar 31, 3:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Burke | 56 min |
| Mar 31, 3:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge | 42 min |
| Mar 31, 3:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 46 min |
| Mar 31, 4:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 5:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Washington | 45 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.