Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 1994, 4:03 PM EST for Stephens County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 1994, 4:03 PM EST (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1994, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stephens County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 530 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 654 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAHN 272104 SVRAHN GAC257-272130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 403 PM EST SUN MAR 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATHENS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...STEPHENS COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO STEPHENS COUNTY OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THE PATH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO STEPHENS COUNTY OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR AND THIS PATH COULD TAKE THE STORM VERY NEAR THE CITY OF TOCCOA. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. r
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield | 55 min |
| Mar 27, 2:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin, White | 40 min |
| Mar 27, 2:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 33 min |
| Mar 27, 2:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Habersham, Rabun, White | 53 min |
| Mar 27, 2:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 53 min |
| Mar 27, 3:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 29 min |
| Mar 27, 3:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Gordon, Pickens | 25 min |
| Mar 27, 3:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 38 min |
| Mar 27, 3:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 34 min |
| Mar 27, 3:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Habersham, Hall | 48 min |
| Mar 27, 3:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Pickens | 39 min |
| Mar 27, 4:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Habersham, White | 38 min |
| Mar 27, 4:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Rabun | 38 min |
| Mar 27, 4:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Habersham, White | 54 min |
| Mar 27, 4:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 54 min |
| Mar 27, 6:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 30 min |
| Mar 27, 6:58 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 32 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.