Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1994, 3:55 PM EDT for Greene County, Morgan County, Georgia. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1994, 3:55 PM EDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1994, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greene County, GA, Morgan County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 877 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 764 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAHN 132000 COR SVRAHN GAC133-211-132100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECT SOURCE FOR DAMAGE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 355 PM EDT MON JUN 13 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATHENS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...GREENE COUNTY...MORGAN COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF MADISON GEORGIA IN MORGAN COUNTY MOVING SLOWLY EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THIS MOVEMENT WILL PUT THE STORM INTO GREENE COUNTY SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR UNION POINT YOU SHOULD PREPARE NOW FOR SEVERE WEATHER. THE MORGAN COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED TREES DOWN ON STREETS...POWER OUTAGES AND SOME HAIL AS THE STORM MOVED THROUGH. 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, Jun 13, 3:40 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
GAZ008>010-014>018-023>029-035>038-047>051-132050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 340 PM EDT MON JUN 13 1994 ...SLOW MOVING...LIGHTNING PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS HAD FORMED OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA... AT 335 PM EDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE SCATTERED ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA MOVING SLOWLY EAST AT LESS THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR JEFFERSON AND COMMERCE...NEAR MADISON...NEAR SOCIAL CIRCLE AND COVINGTON AND 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLAIRSVILLE. IF YOU ARE NEAR THESE ABOVE MENTIONED CITIES AND SURROUNDING AREAS SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AT THE FIRST SIGN OF APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU ARE ON OPEN WATER...SEEK SAFE HARBOR AND STAY AWAY FROM TREES. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AS THESE SLOW-MOVING STORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS MAKING FOR POSSIBLE STREET FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. REMEMBER...THUNDERSTORMS OF THIS INTENSITY WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALLL...KILLER LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. ELSEWHERE ACROSS THE REGION SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER EAST TENNESSEEE...WEST NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL GEORGIA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST SOUTH CAROLINA. SOME OF THE STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WERE LOCATED NEAR GATLINBURG AND TELLICO PLAINS IN TENNESSEE. ALSO OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED NEAR MILLEDGEVILLE AND LAKE SINCLAIR AND 10 MILES SOUTH OF DUDLY GEORGIA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY EAST AT LESS THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR. KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...THE VOICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 3:43 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
GAZ008>010-014>018-023>029-035>038-047>051-132050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 340 PM EDT MON JUN 13 1994 ...SLOW MOVING...LIGHTNING PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS HAD FORMED OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA... AT 335 PM EDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE SCATTERED ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA MOVING SLOWLY EAST AT LESS THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR JEFFERSON AND COMMERCE...NEAR MADISON...NEAR SOCIAL CIRCLE AND COVINGTON AND 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLAIRSVILLE. IF YOU ARE NEAR THESE ABOVE MENTIONED CITIES AND SURROUNDING AREAS SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AT THE FIRST SIGN OF APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU ARE ON OPEN WATER...SEEK SAFE HARBOR AND STAY AWAY FROM TREES. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AS THESE SLOW-MOVING STORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS MAKING FOR POSSIBLE STREET FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. REMEMBER...THUNDERSTORMS OF THIS INTENSITY WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALLL...KILLER LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. ELSEWHERE ACROSS THE REGION SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER EAST TENNESSEEE...WEST NORTH CAROLINA...CENTRAL GEORGIA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST SOUTH CAROLINA. SOME OF THE STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WERE LOCATED NEAR GATLINBURG AND TELLICO PLAINS IN TENNESSEE. ALSO OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED NEAR MILLEDGEVILLE AND LAKE SINCLAIR AND 10 MILES SOUTH OF DUDLY GEORGIA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY EAST AT LESS THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR. KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...THE VOICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...FOR THE LATEfST WEATHER INFORMATION.
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.