Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1993, 7:36 AM EDT for DeKalb County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 1993, 7:36 AM EDT (11:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1993, 8:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties DeKalb County, GA, Fulton County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 1531 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KATL 191136 SVRFFC GAC089-121-191230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 736 AM EDT WED MAY 19 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...DEKALB COUNTY...NORTHERN FULTON COUNTY RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER DOWNTOWN ATLANTA AT 730 AM EDT. REPORTS OF ABOUT 3 MINUTES OF GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. 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 19, 4:34 AM EDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-190930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 430 AM EDT WED MAY 18 1993 A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL WAS ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA FROM BETWEEN CARROLLTON AND NEWNAN TO NEAR LAKE HARTWELL. THE STRONGEST STORM IN THIS LINE WAS IN SOUTHERN GWINNETT COUNTY MOVING EAST NORTHEAST TOWA0RD THE NORTHERN PART OF WALTON COUNTY AND THE SOUTHERN PART OF BARROW COUNTY . THIS STORM IS THE ONE MOST LIKELY TO CONTAIN HAIL.
Special weather statement, May 19, 5:29 AM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-191030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 530 AM EDT WED MAY 18 1993 A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA WITHIN AN AREA BOUNDED BY MONROE WINDER AND ATHENS. ONE OTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS BETWEEN COMMERCE AND LAKE HARTWELL. ALL OF THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SOME OF THE STORMS HAD SMALL HAIL. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA AROUND ATLANTA AND BETWEEN ATLANTA AND LAWRENCEVILLE. MOVEMENT NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 8:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Walton | 40 min |
| May 19, 9:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 54 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.