Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1993, 5:00 PM EDT for Fayette County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 1993, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1993, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KATL 302102 SVRFFC GAC113-302145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 500 PM EDT SUN MAY 30 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...FAYETTE COUNTY AT 455 PM RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE BOUNDARY OF COWETA AND FAYETTE COUNTIES. THE STORM WAS JUST WEST OF VAUGHN AND MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS..HAIL AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO BE ON THE ALERT. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 30, 3:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
GAZ005-ALZ011-302015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 327 PM EDT SUN MAY 30 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS ON THE INCREASE OVER EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 325 EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDDERSTORMS OVER MARION...MUSCOGEE COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND RUSSELL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS INDICATED BY RADAR AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING THUNDERSTORMS WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR THE LOCAL NEW MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNING. &
Special weather statement, May 30, 3:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
GAZ005-ALZ011-302015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 327 PM EDT SUN MAY 30 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS ON THE INCREASE OVER EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 325 EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDDERSTORMS OVER MARION...MUSCOGEE COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND RUSSELL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS INDICATED BY RADAR AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING THUNDERSTORMS WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR THE LOCAL NEW MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNING. &
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.