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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 5, 1993Laurens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 5, 1993, 4:31 PM EDT for Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 5, 1993, 4:31 PM EDT (20:31 UTC)
Expired
Apr 5, 1993, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Laurens County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1993-04-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1993-04-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 495 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
557 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
495 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
763 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 5, 3:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley, Twiggs40 min
Apr 5, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBurke, Emanuel41 min

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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.