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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 9, 1994Meriwether County, Upson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1994, 6:53 PM EDT for Meriwether County, Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1994, 6:53 PM EDT (22:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1994, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Meriwether County, GA, Upson County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 156 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 149 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1117 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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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, Jun 9, 6:12 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:12 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 6:13 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 8:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Twiggs	65 min
Jun 8, 8:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp	57 min
Jun 8, 9:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	40 min
Jun 9, 9:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth	38 min
Jun 9, 9:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	31 min
Jun 9, 10:06 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow	69 min
Jun 9, 10:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	52 min
Jun 9, 12:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Putnam	60 min
Jun 9, 1:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	56 min
Jun 9, 1:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford	45 min
Jun 9, 1:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb	41 min
Jun 9, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar, Spalding	56 min
Jun 9, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fayette	56 min
Jun 9, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Monroe	42 min
Jun 9, 2:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	69 min
Jun 9, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Screven	61 min
Jun 9, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones	41 min
Jun 9, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	27 min
Jun 9, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston	50 min
Jun 9, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley	45 min
Jun 9, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pulaski	51 min
Jun 9, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Meriwether	57 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.