Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1993, 8:20 AM EDT for Barrow County, Walton County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 1993, 8:20 AM EDT (12:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1993, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barrow County, GA, Walton County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 502 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 759 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 46 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 51 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.
Special weather statement, May 19, 7:50 AM EDT, 30 minutes before
GAZ004-191345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 750 AM EDT WED MAY 19 1993 AT 745 AM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL AND SOME WITH HAIL WAS MOVING ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA AND WILL BE MOVING INTO NORTHEAST GEORGIA WITHIN AN HOUR. PERSONS IN WALTON...BARROW AND JACKSON COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER FOR THE NEXT 2 HOURS. BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, May 19, 7:51 AM EDT, 29 minutes before
GAZ004-191345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 750 AM EDT WED MAY 19 1993 AT 745 AM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL AND SOME WITH HAIL WAS MOVING ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA AND WILL BE MOVING INTO NORTHEAST GEORGIA WITHIN AN HOUR. PERSONS IN WALTON...BARROW AND JACKSON COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER FOR THE NEXT 2 HOURS. BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 7:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 54 min |
| May 19, 9:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 54 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.