Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1994, 7:57 AM EDT for Edgefield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 1994, 7:57 AM EDT (11:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1994, 8:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Edgefield County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 1328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1090 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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 27, 6:38 AM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
GAZ059-060-271140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 638 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 454 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 NOON FOR JASPER..PUTNAM..JONES..AND BALDWIN COUNTIES IN CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 630 AM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM ATLANTA TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF ATHENS TO WASHINGTON IN WILKES COUNTY. TH LINE WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST 12 MILES AN HOUR AND STORMS IN THE LINE WERE MOVING TO TlHE EAST 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WILL ENTER JASPER AND PUTNAM COUNTIES NEAR 730 AM EDT. PERSONS IN JASPER AND PUTNAM COUNTIES BE AWARE OF THESE STORMS AND STAY TUNED TO THIS RADIO FOR UPDATED INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 6:38 AM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
GAZ059-060-271140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 638 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 454 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 NOON FOR JASPER..PUTNAM..JONES..AND BALDWIN COUNTIES IN CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 630 AM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM ATLANTA TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF ATHENS TO WASHINGTON IN WILKES COUNTY. TH LINE WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST 12 MILES AN HOUR AND STORMS IN THE LINE WERE MOVING TO TlHE EAST 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WILL ENTER JASPER AND PUTNAM COUNTIES NEAR 730 AM EDT. PERSONS IN JASPER AND PUTNAM COUNTIES BE AWARE OF THESE STORMS AND STAY TUNED TO THIS RADIO FOR UPDATED INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 7:08 AM EDT, 49 minutes before
GAZ059-060-271140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT..CORRECT WATCH NUMBER.. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 708 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 484 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 NOON FOR JASPER..PUTNAM..JONES..AND BALDWIN COUNTIES IN CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 630 AM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM ATLANTA TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF ATHENS TO WASHINGTON IN WILKES COUNTY. TH LINE WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST 12 MILES AN HOUR AND STORMS IN THE LINE WERE MOVING TO THE EAST 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WILL ENTER JASPER AND PUTNAM COUNTIES NEAR 730 AM EDT. PERSONS IN JASPER AND PUTNAM COUNTIES BE AWARE OF THESE STORMS AND STAY TUNED TO THIS RADIO FOR UPDATED INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 7:08 AM EDT, 49 minutes before
GAZ059-060-271140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT..CORRECT WATCH NUMBER.. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 708 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 484 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 NOON FOR JASPER..PUTNAM..JONES..AND BALDWIN COUNTIES IN CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 630 AM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM ATLANTA TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF ATHENS TO WASHINGTON IN WILKES COUNTY. TH LINE WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST 12 MILES AN HOUR AND STORMS IN THE LINE WERE MOVING TO THE EAST 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WILL ENTER JASPER AND PUTNAM COUNTIES NEAR 730 AM EDT. PERSONS IN JASPER AND PUTNAM COUNTIES BE AWARE OF THESE STORMS AND STAY TUNED TO THIS RADIO FOR UPDATED INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 7:48 AM EDT, 9 minutes before
GAZ059-060-271250- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 749 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 AT 740 AM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ATLANTA TO 18 MILES SOUTH OF ATHENS WITH THE LARGEST STORMS IN CENTRAL ROCKDALE COUNTY EAST OF ATLANTA TO SOUTH OF WATKINSVILLE IN OCONEE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST 30 MILES AN HOUR AND THE LINE WAS INCHING EAST SOUTHEAST NEAR 10 MILES AN HOUR. THE LARGE STORM NEAREST MIDDLE GEORGIA WAS THAT IN ROCKDALE COUNTY. ATLANTA ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE ROCKDALE COUNTY STORM. PERSONS IN JASPER AND PUTNAM COUNTIES STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER AND STAY TUNED TO THIS RADIO FOR UP DATED INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 7:49 AM EDT, 8 minutes before
GAZ059-060-271250- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 749 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 AT 740 AM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ATLANTA TO 18 MILES SOUTH OF ATHENS WITH THE LARGEST STORMS IN CENTRAL ROCKDALE COUNTY EAST OF ATLANTA TO SOUTH OF WATKINSVILLE IN OCONEE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST 30 MILES AN HOUR AND THE LINE WAS INCHING EAST SOUTHEAST NEAR 10 MILES AN HOUR. THE LARGE STORM NEAREST MIDDLE GEORGIA WAS THAT IN ROCKDALE COUNTY. ATLANTA ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE ROCKDALE COUNTY STORM. PERSONS IN JASPER AND PUTNAM COUNTIES STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER AND STAY TUNED TO THIS RADIO FOR UPDATED INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 10:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 10:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall, Lumpkin, White | 64 min |
| Jun 26, 10:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 47 min |
| Jun 26, 11:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 11:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 11:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks, Habersham, Hall | 26 min |
| Jun 26, 11:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield | 56 min |
| Jun 26, 11:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 56 min |
| Jun 26, 11:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Haralson | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 11:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fulton | 43 min |
| Jun 27, 12:05 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dawson, Hall, Lumpkin | 55 min |
| Jun 27, 12:05 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks | 55 min |
| Jun 27, 12:05 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | White | 55 min |
| Jun 27, 12:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Gwinnett | 45 min |
| Jun 27, 12:47 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall, Jackson | 58 min |
| Jun 27, 1:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Gordon | 69 min |
| Jun 27, 1:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Polk | 47 min |
| Jun 27, 1:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Habersham, Hall, White | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 1:53 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hall, Lumpkin | 37 min |
| Jun 27, 1:53 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dawson | 52 min |
| Jun 27, 2:02 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Paulding, Polk | 43 min |
| Jun 27, 2:03 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks, Habersham | 42 min |
| Jun 27, 2:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd | 41 min |
| Jun 27, 2:21 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb | 54 min |
| Jun 27, 2:35 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jackson, Madison | 45 min |
| Jun 27, 2:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett | 28 min |
| Jun 27, 2:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 36 min |
| Jun 27, 3:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Paulding, Polk | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 5:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oconee, Oglethorpe | 56 min |
| Jun 27, 6:55 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Morgan, Oconee, Walton | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 6:55 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 7:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rockdale | 48 min |
| Jun 27, 7:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Newton, Walton | 54 min |
| Jun 27, 8:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro | 55 min |
| Jun 27, 9:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lincoln | 37 min |
| Jun 27, 11:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 48 min |
| Jun 27, 12:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Putnam | 50 min |
| Jun 27, 12:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hancock | 54 min |
| Jun 27, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Screven | 49 min |
| Jun 27, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Grundy | 33 min |
| Jun 26, 8:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Sequatchie | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 9:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bledsoe | 27 min |
| Jun 26, 9:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bledsoe, Rhea | 25 min |
| Jun 26, 9:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Marion | 45 min |
| Jun 26, 10:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hamilton, Meigs | 69 min |
| Jun 26, 10:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | McMinn | 69 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 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.