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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Atlanta, GA

February 21, 1993Bartow County, Paulding County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Feb 21, 1993, 8:34 PM EST for Bartow County, Paulding County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Feb 21, 1993, 8:34 PM EST (01:34 UTC)
Expired
Feb 21, 1993, 9:15 PM EST
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bartow County, GA, Paulding County, GA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Feb 21, 8:50 PM ESTTornado F1Cartersville, GAA weak and short lived tornado touched down 5 miles east of Cartersville along Georgia Highway 20 in southeast Bartow County. Four to five homes sustained major damage with roofs removed, porches blown off and windows blown out. One double wide mobile home w

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 144 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 00:00Z on 1993-02-22Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1993-02-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 478 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
478 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
577 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 220141
TORATL
GAC015-223-220215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTION FOR COUNTY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
834 PM EST SUN FEB 21 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...BARTOW COUNTY...PAULDING COUNTY
 
AT 830 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN BARTOW COUNTY
NEAR ATCO...AND ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN POLK COUNTY MOVING INTO
NORTHERN PAULDING COUNTY. THESE STORMS CONTAIN POSSIBLE TORNADOES. THE
STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 55 MILES AN HOUR.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 "

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 21, 8:06 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFloyd, Polk39 min
Feb 21, 9:06 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCCherokee, Cobb54 min
Feb 21, 9:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHabersham, White60 min
Feb 21, 9:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCStephens60 min
Feb 21, 9:32 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCDeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett58 min
Feb 21, 9:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks, Barrow, Hall, Jackson57 min
Feb 21, 9:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClarke, Oconee, Walton57 min
Feb 21, 10:01 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCPaulding29 min
Feb 21, 10:41 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMadison, Oglethorpe64 min
Feb 21, 11:09 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFayette36 min
Feb 21, 11:19 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow, Clarke, Oconee, Walton56 min
Feb 21, 11:26 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLincoln49 min
Feb 21, 11:26 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilkes49 min
Feb 21, 11:29 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHenry31 min
Feb 21, 11:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJasper45 min
Feb 21, 11:39 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGreene, Morgan, Newton66 min
Feb 21, 11:47 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether43 min
Feb 22, 12:08 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLincoln, Wilkes67 min
Feb 22, 12:54 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGreene, Taliaferro36 min
Feb 22, 1:23 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBaldwin, Jones52 min
Feb 22, 2:18 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether, Troup42 min
Feb 22, 2:38 AM ESTTornado WarningFFCMeriwether, Pike37 min
Feb 22, 2:54 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGlascock, Hancock, Warren52 min
Feb 22, 3:07 AM ESTTornado WarningFFCLamar, Meriwether, Pike, Upson53 min
Feb 22, 3:35 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMonroe25 min
Feb 22, 4:08 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBibb40 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.