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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Atlanta, GA

February 22, 19934 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Feb 22, 1993, 3:07 AM EST for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 22, 1993, 3:07 AM EST (08:07 UTC)
Expired
Feb 22, 1993, 4:00 AM EST
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lamar County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Pike County, GA, Upson County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 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 220807
TORATL
GAC171-199-231-293-220900-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
307 AM EST MON FEB 22 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...LAMAR COUNTY...MERIWETHER COUNTY...PIKE COUNTY
   ...UPSON COUNTY
 
AT 303 AM EST RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR
ZEBULON IN PIKE COUNTY TO DURAND IN MERIWETHER COUNTY. POSSIBLE
TORNADOES WERE INDICATED IN THIS LINE NEAR ZEBULON...NEAR WOODBURY...AND
IN THE DURAND VICINITY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 65 MILES
AN HOUR.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

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, 8:34 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCBartow, Paulding41 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, 3:35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.