Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1994, 2:36 PM EDT for Putnam County, Georgia. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1994, 2:36 PM EDT (18:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1994, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Putnam County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 855 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 983 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMCN 181838 RRA SVRMCN GAC237-181930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 236 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON GA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...PUTNAM COUNTY AT 235 PM RADAR SHOWED A VERY STRONG LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING SEVERE INTENSITY LYING ACROSS THE CENTER OF PUTNAM COUNTY FROM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF EATONTON TO 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EATONTON. JUST EDEVELOPED AND MOVEMENT NOT YET INDICATED. THESE STORMS ARE GROWING RAPIDLY AND WILL LIKELY BE SEVERE INTENSITY IN A VERY FEW MINUTES. THEY CONTAIN HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN AND LIKELY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MILES AN HOUR. 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 18, 2:19 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
GAZ005>007-011>013-019>022-030>034-041>046-052>058-066>070-182020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 219 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA... AT 215 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A FEW THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST GIERGIA. THE STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS WAS IN PICKENS COUNTY NEAR JASPER AND NEAR CALHOUN IN GORDON COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AT 10 MPH. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER NORTH GEORGIA CONTINUES TO BE MOIST AND UNSTABLE. THIS WILL LEAD TO CONDITIONS SUCH THAT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND BECOME MORE NUMEROUS ACROSS THE AREA INTO THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 2:19 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
GAZ005>007-011>013-019>022-030>034-041>046-052>058-066>070-182020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 219 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA... AT 215 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A FEW THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST GIERGIA. THE STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS WAS IN PICKENS COUNTY NEAR JASPER AND NEAR CALHOUN IN GORDON COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AT 10 MPH. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER NORTH GEORGIA CONTINUES TO BE MOIST AND UNSTABLE. THIS WILL LEAD TO CONDITIONS SUCH THAT THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND BECOME MORE NUMEROUS ACROSS THE AREA INTO THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THESE STORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 8:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Burke, Richmond | 46 min |
| Jun 18, 2:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pickens | 53 min |
| Jun 18, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 47 min |
| Jun 18, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 26 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.