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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 13, 1993Pike County, Spalding County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1993, 12:29 PM EDT for Pike County, Spalding County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 1993, 12:29 PM EDT (16:29 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 1993, 1:15 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Pike County, GA, Spalding County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KATL 131629
SVRATL
GAC255-231-131715-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
1229 PM EDT THU MAY 13 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...SPALDING COUNTY
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...WESTERN PIKE COUNTY
 
AT 1220 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING
EXTREME WESTERN PIKE AND SOUTHERN SPALDING COUNTIES. AT NOON...WOODBURY
POLICE DEPARTMENT IN MERIWETHER COUNTY REPORTED NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND 60
MILE AN HOUR WINDS WITH THIS STORM.
 
 
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, May 13, 11:09 AM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

GAZ006-008-009-131715-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
1109 AM EDT THU MAY 13 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 254 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE
PART OF GEORGIA UNTIL 400 PM EDT...

AT 1105 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS LOCATED THUNDERSTORMS
MOVING INTO WESTERN GEORGIA FROM ALABAMA.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST
GEORGIA.

THUNDERSTORM MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

CONDITIONS ARE GOOD FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL
GEORGIA...ESPECIALLY THIS AFTERNOON...AND PERSONS NEED TO REMAIN ALERT
TO WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS THIS AFTERNOON.

Special weather statement, May 13, 11:09 AM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

GAZ006-008-009-131715-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
1109 AM EDT THU MAY 13 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 254 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE
PART OF GEORGIA UNTIL 400 PM EDT...

AT 1105 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS LOCATED THUNDERSTORMS
MOVING INTO WESTERN GEORGIA FROM ALABAMA.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST
GEORGIA.

THUNDERSTORM MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

CONDITIONS ARE GOOD FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL
GEORGIA...ESPECIALLY THIS AFTERNOON...AND PERSONS NEED TO REMAIN ALERT
TO WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS THIS AFTERNOON.

Special weather statement, May 13, 11:33 AM EDT, 56 minutes before

GAZ001-005-131730-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
11:31 AM EDT THU MAY 13 1993

           ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL
              4 PM THIS AFTERNOON..

             ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS ENDED FOR
                CARROLL AND PAULDING COUNTIES...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CARROLL AND PAULING COUNTIES HAS JUST
ENDED. THERE WERE REPORTS FROM CARROLLTON P. D. THAT HAIL IN THE NORTHERN
PART OF THE COUNTY WAS OBSERVED AROUND 10:30 AM...HOWEVER MAINLY HEAVY
RAIN AND SOME LIGHTNING STRIKES WERE REPORTED. IN PAULDING COUNTY AGAIN
HEAVY RAIN AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING OCCURRED.

WEATHER RADAR HAS CONTINUED TO SHOW HEAVY SHOWERS WITH SOME EMBEDDED
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE ATLANTA AREA FROM FAIRBURN THROUGH DOUGLASVILLE
AND ATLANTA AIRPORT...THEN NORTH TO ROSWELL. GEORGIA. THE MOST INTENSE
STORMS WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF AUSTELL AND NEAR ROSWELL.

THE STORM AT AUSTELL SHOULD MOVE INTO THE MARIETTA AREA BY 11:30 AM WHILE
THE ROSWELL STORM WILL AFFECT THE CUMMING AREA IN ABOUT AN HOUR. THESE
STORMS COULD PRODDUCE DAMAGING HAIL AND WIND...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES
AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE FOU8R COUNTY AREA OF FULTON...COBB...DEKALB AND
GWINNETT COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.

SOME STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY BUT BRIEF DOWNPOURS WHICH
FLOOD SOME STREETS AND LOW AREAS IN THE ATLANTA AREA.

BUTLER

Special weather statement, May 13, 11:43 AM EDT, 46 minutes before

GAZ002-004-131645-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
1143 AM EDT THU MAY 13 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR A PORTION OF
NORTHEAST GEORGIA INCLUDING ATHENS...GAINESVILLE...MONROE AND ELBERTON
UNTIL 400 PM EDT...

RADAR AT 1140 AM EDT INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS EAST AND NORTH OF ATLANTA
WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS NORTH OF ATLANTA.

IF YOU ARE IN THE WATCH AREA REMAIN ALERT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.  THESE STORMS COULD
PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND
POSSIBLE LOCALIZED FLOODING WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE STORMS.  STAY TUNED
TO COMMERCIAL RADIO...TV...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, May 13, 11:45 AM EDT, 44 minutes before

GAZ002-004-131645-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
1143 AM EDT THU MAY 13 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR A PORTION OF
NORTHEAST GEORGIA INCLUDING ATHENS...GAINESVILLE...MONROE AND ELBERTON
UNTIL 400 PM EDT...

RADAR AT 1140 AM EDT INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS EAST AND NORTH OF ATLANTA
WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS NORTH OF ATLANTA.

IF YOU ARE IN THE WATCH AREA REMAIN ALERT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.  THESE STORMS COULD
PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND
POSSIBLE LOCALIZED FLOODING WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE STORMS.  STAY TUNED
TO COMMERCIAL RADIO...TV...VOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, May 13, 12:11 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

GAZ005-008-ALZ011-131700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
12083 PM EDT THU MAY 13 1993

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON
FOR EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTH
WEST GEORGIA...

AT 1205 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR AT COLUMBUS GEORGIA CONTINUED TO SHOW HEAVY
SHOWERS WITH SOME EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND
AND WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST  GEORGIA. THE MOST INTENSE STORMS WERE LO
TJUST NORTHWEST OF NEWVILLE IN HENRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND JUST
SOUTH OF BLAKELY IN EARLY COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA.

THE STORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHEAST AS THEY MOVE THROUGH EAST
CENTRAL ALABAMA AND THROUGH WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA THIS
AFTERNOON.THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING HAIL AND WINDS...DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING STRIKES.. AND VERY HEAVY BUT BRIEF DOWNPOURS.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 8:19 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, DeKalb, Henry	56 min
May 13, 8:19 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Rockdale	56 min
May 13, 10:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Paulding	42 min
May 13, 12:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Jackson	66 min
May 13, 12:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walton	66 min
May 13, 12:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	48 min
May 13, 1:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Franklin, Habersham, Stephens	61 min
May 13, 1:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke, Madison, Oconee	61 min
May 13, 1:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Walton	51 min
May 13, 1:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jackson	51 min
May 13, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Jenkins	67 min
May 13, 2:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Franklin, Hart	40 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.