Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1994, 3:49 PM EDT for Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 1994, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1994, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Laurens County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMCN 241951 RRA SVRMCN GAC175-242030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 349 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON GA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...LAURENS COUNTY AT 350 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN MIDDLE GEORGIA INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CENTERED 10 MILES NORTH OF DUBLIN. MOVEMENT IS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. JCP
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 24, 2:53 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
GAZ033-034-041-044-045-046-052-053-054-055-056-057-058-066-067 -068-069-070-241945 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 245 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL...NORTHEAST AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 8 PM EDT INCLUDING THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE ATLANTA METROPOLITIAN AREA... AT 240 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM JUST EAST OF ATHENS EXTENDING SOUTHWARD TO NEAR MACON. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING NORTH OF LAKE LANIER EXTENTING WESTWARD TO THE SOUTH OF ROME GEORGIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE FORMATION OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. RESIDENTS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. ROSS
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 3:37 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
GAZ120>127-129-142>147-242040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 337 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 333 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER BAKER AND MILLER COUNTIES MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 45 MPH. SOME OF THESE STORMS CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. SEVERE WEATHER IS ALSO POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. LISTEN FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 3:38 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
GAZ120>127-129-142>147-242040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 337 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 333 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER BAKER AND MILLER COUNTIES MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 45 MPH. SOME OF THESE STORMS CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. SEVERE WEATHER IS ALSO POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. LISTEN FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 3:44 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
344 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 1994
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...
AT 340 PM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR GREENWOOD SOUTH
CAROLINA...SOUTHWEST...TO JUST WEST OF AUGUSTA...SOUTHWEST TO 40 MILES
SOUTH OF MACON. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
PRESENTLY THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER NORTHEAST
GEORGIA...HOWEVER AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT TO OUR WEST COULD PRODUCE
ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS LATER TONIGHT.
IF YOU ARE NEAR THUNDERSTORMS...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS
HAVE PASSED. ALSO THOSE ON AREA LAKE SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND
SEEK SAFE HARBOR AT THE FIRST SIGN OF A THUNDERSTORM.
KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
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,Special weather statement, Jun 24, 3:45 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
GAZ034-035-036-037-047-045-046-048-049-059-058-057-056-058-070- 069-071-072-082-081-080-079-091-090-102-120-010-016-017-018-023- 024-026-028-025-027-029-038-051-050-241945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 345 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLATION... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 456 HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT NORTH AND WEST OF A ELBERTON..MACON..EUFAULA ALABAMA LINE. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS MOVED INTO EXTREME EASTERN AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF GEORGIA. THE ACTIVITY IS CONTINUING TO DIMINISH AND IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. ROSS
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 3:45 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
GAZ010-014-015-016-017-018-023-024-025-026-027-028-029-035-036- 037-038-047-048-049-050-051-242045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 344 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 1994 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 340 PM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR GREENWOOD SOUTH CAROLINA...SOUTHWEST...TO JUST WEST OF AUGUSTA...SOUTHWEST TO 40 MILES SOUTH OF MACON. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. PRESENTLY THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA...HOWEVER AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT TO OUR WEST COULD PRODUCE ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS LATER TONIGHT. IF YOU ARE NEAR THUNDERSTORMS...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. ALSO THOSE ON AREA LAKE SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND SEEK SAFE HARBOR AT THE FIRST SIGN OF A THUNDERSTORM. KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 1:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Monroe | 63 min |
| Jun 24, 1:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Upson | 33 min |
| Jun 24, 1:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 52 min |
| Jun 24, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jasper, Putnam | 63 min |
| Jun 24, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 65 min |
| Jun 24, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan | 65 min |
| Jun 24, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 38 min |
| Jun 24, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Burke | 62 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.