Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1993, 2:35 PM EDT for DeKalb County, Georgia. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1993, 2:35 PM EDT (18:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1993, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County DeKalb County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 673 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 311835 TORATL GAC089-311930- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 235 PM EDT MON MAY 31 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...DEKALB COUNTY AT 233 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO ON THE FULTON COUNTY - DEKALB COUNTY LINE JUST OF DECATUR. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 31, 12:28 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
GAZ001-003-311800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 1226 PM EDT MON MAY 31 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA... AT 1223 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR BLUE RIDGE IN FANNIN COUNTY SOUTHWARD TO NEAR CARTERSVILLE IN BARTOW COUNTY. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN... FREQUENT LIGfHTNING AND HAIL. PERSONS IN NORTH GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT...AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY SHOULD THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO YOUR AREA.
Special weather statement, May 31, 12:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-311800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1230 PM EDT MON MAY 31 1993 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS APPROACHING THE WESTERN COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA... RADAR INDICATED THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR ALLATOONA LAKE NORTHEAST INTO WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR JASPER AND JUST WEST OF BLAIRSVILLE GEORGIA. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN BLAIRSVILLE...DAWSONVILLE AND DAHLONEGA AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS OF DAWSON...LUMPKIN AND UNION COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD BE ALERT TO APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS WHEN THUNDERSTORMS OCCUR. ALSO BOATERS ON AREA LAKES SHOULD LOOK FOR SAFE HARBOR UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. ELSEWHERE RAINSHOWERS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. THE SHOWERS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. WOUS01KAWN ,
Special weather statement, May 31, 12:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-311800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1230 PM EDT MON MAY 31 1993 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS APPROACHING THE WESTERN COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA... RADAR INDICATED THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR ALLATOONA LAKE NORTHEAST INTO WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR JASPER AND JUST WEST OF BLAIRSVILLE GEORGIA. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN BLAIRSVILLE...DAWSONVILLE AND DAHLONEGA AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS OF DAWSON...LUMPKIN AND UNION COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD BE ALERT TO APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS WHEN THUNDERSTORMS OCCUR. ALSO BOATERS ON AREA LAKES SHOULD LOOK FOR SAFE HARBOR UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. ELSEWHERE RAINSHOWERS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED ACRORSS SOUTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. THE SHOWERS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 31, 1:40 PM EDT, 55 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-311800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 140 PM EDT MON MAY 31 1993 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO MOVE ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA... RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM NEAR DAHLONEGA...SOUTHWEST...TO DOUGLASVILLE GEORGIA. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WERE LOCATED NEAR LAKE SIDNEY LANIER AND NEAR ROSWELL. PERSONS ON OR NEAR LAKE LANIER SHOULD SEEK INDOOR SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. BOATERS SHOULD FIND SAFE HARBOR AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. REMEMBER STORMS OF THIS INTENSITY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL. ELSEWHERE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS AND A FEW WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE DETECTED ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA AND THE WESTERN CAROLINAS. A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS INDICATED JUST WEST OF MACON GEORGIA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. WOUS01KAWN ,
Special weather statement, May 31, 1:42 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-311800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 140 PM EDT MON MAY 31 1993 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO MOVE ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA... RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM NEAR DAHLONEGA...SOUTHWEST...TO DOUGLASVILLE GEORGIA. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WERE LOCATED NEAR LAKE SIDNEY LANIER AND NEAR ROSWELL. PERSONS ON OR NEAR LAKE LANIER SHOULD SEEK INDOOR SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. BOATERS SHOULD FIND SAFE HARBOR AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. REMEMBER STORMS OF THIS INTENSITY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL. ELSEWHERE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS AND A FEW WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE DETECTED ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA AND THE WESTERN CAROLINAS. A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS INDICATED JUST WEST OF MACON GEORGIA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 31, 2:35 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
GAZ001>010-ALZ003-007-011-012-NCZ007-010>013-SCZ001>004-006- TNZ001>003-005-311946- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 235 PM EDT MON MAY 31 1993 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA... RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL APPROACHING BARROW...WALTON AND NEWTON COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR CONYERS AND SOCIAL CIRCLE AND WEST OF WINDER. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS OUTDOORS SHOULD MOVE INSIDE UNTIL THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PASSED. MOTORISTS ARE REMINDED TO NOT CROSS WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTHS AS SOME FLOODING OF STREETS IS POSSIBLE DUE THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS. THOSE ON AREA LAKES SHOULD SEEK SHELTER AT THE FIRST SIGN OF AN APPROACHING THUNDERSTORM. ELSEWHERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE SCATTERED ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH GEORGIA...NORTHWEST SOUTH CAROLINA AND WEST NORTH CAROLINA. STORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE DETECTED OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA NEAR FORT VALLEY AND 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MACON. ALSO OVER NORTHWEST SOUTH CAROLINA STORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE NOTED NEAR WALHALLA AND PICKENS. ALL ACTIVITY WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES. WWUS35KHSV ,
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 12:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pickens | 36 min |
| May 31, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth | 60 min |
| May 31, 1:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Twiggs | 59 min |
| May 31, 1:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton, Gwinnett | 53 min |
| May 31, 2:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 45 min |
| May 31, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke | 70 min |
| May 31, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Walton | 70 min |
| May 31, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 57 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.