Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 244, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1994, 2:07 PM EDT for Coweta County, Fayette County, Georgia. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 1994, 2:07 PM EDT (18:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1994, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coweta County, GA, Fayette County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 1687 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 191808 RRA SVRATL GAC077-113-191900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 207 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...EASTERN COWETA COUNTY...SOUTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY AT 2:05 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PEACHTREE CITY IN SOUTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS SOUTH AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY H EAVY 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. ZALESKI
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
Local storm report, Jul 19, 1:38 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
138 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 1994
COUNTY...... COOK COUNTY
SOURCE...... COLQUITT ELECTRIC
TIME........ 1230 PM EDT...TUE-JUL19
LOCATION.... COUNTYWIDE
TYPE STORM.. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
DAMAGE...... NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES...NEARLY HALF OF ADEL WITHOUT
POWER...NUMEROUS POWERLINES DOWN AND TREES UPROOTED OR
BROKEN AT UNKNOWN LOCATION ALONG ANTIOCH RD
INJURIES.... NONE REPORTED
DEATHS...... NONE REPORTED
COST........ NOT AVAILABLELocal storm report, Jul 19, 1:48 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
138 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 1994
COUNTY...... COOK COUNTY
SOURCE...... COLQUITT ELECTRIC
TIME........ 1230 PM EDT...TUE-JUL19
LOCATION.... COUNTYWIDE
TYPE STORM.. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
DAMAGE...... NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES...NEARLY HALF OF ADEL WITHOUT
POWER...NUMEROUS POWERLINES DOWN AND TREES UPROOTED OR
BROKEN AT UNKNOWN LOCATION ALONG ANTIOCH RD
INJURIES.... NONE REPOR$TED
DEATHS...... NONE REPORTED
COST........ NOT AVAILABLESpecial weather statement, Jul 19, 2:00 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
GAZ008>010-014>018-023>029-035>038-047>051-191930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 200 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA... AT 157 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WERE LOCATED OVER TALIAFERRO COUNTY AND SOUTHERN PARTS OF MORGAN...GREENE AND OGLETHORPE COUNTIES AND EXTENDED SOUTHWARD TO NORTHEAST OF MACON AND NORTHWEST OF AUGUSTA. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED OVER MANY OF THESE AREAS DURING THE PAST TWO TO THREE HOURS AND YOU ARE URGED TO BE CAUTIOUS WHEN DRIVING INTO AREAS THAT ARE FLOOD PRONE. THE STORMS SHOWED VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT. SOME OF THE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING ALONG WITH THE VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE OVER OVER OTHER PARTS OF GEORGIA...THE CAROLINAS...EASTERN TENNESSEE AND EASTERN ALABAMA. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING SOUTH OF ATLANTA AND NEAR MURPHY NORTH CAROLINA. THUNDERSTORMS SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. BE MINDFUL OF PERSONAL SAFETY AND LISTEN TO LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON TELEVISION...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO.
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 2:03 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
GAZ059-060-073-110-130-192005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 203 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 1994 AT 155 PM WEATHER RADAR IN MACON SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA. SOME THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM MACHEN IN JASPER COUNTY SOUTHEAST TO NEAR MILLEDGEVILLE IN BALDWIN COUNTY. ALSO THUNDERSTORMS WERE ON THE TELFAIR AND BEN HILL COUNTY LINE NEAR JACKSONVILLE GEORGIA IN TELFAIR COUNTY. VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE SOME MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT CLOUD. PRECAUTIONS SHOULD BE TAKEN EVEN THOUGH THE THUNDERSTORM IS NOT DIRECTLY OVERHEAD.
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 2:05 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
GAZ008>010-014>018-023>029-035>038-047>051-191930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 200 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA... AT 157 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WERE LOCATED OVER TALIAFERRO COUNTY AND SOUTHERN PARTS OF MORGAN...GREENE AND OGLETHORPE COUNTIES AND EXTENDED SOUTHWARD TO NORTHEAST OF MACON AND NORTHWEST OF AUGUSTA. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED OVER MANY OF THESE AREAS DURING THE PAST TWO TO THREE HOURS AND YOU ARE URGED TO BE CAUTIOUS WHEN DRIVING INTO AREAS THAT ARE FLOOD PRONE. THE STORMS SHOWED VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT. SOME OF THE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING ALONG WITH THE VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLE STRONG GUSTY ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE ALSO OVER OTHER PARTS OF GEORGIA...THE CAROLINAS...EASTERN TENNESSEE AND EASTERN ALABAMA. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING SOUTH OF ATLANTA AND NEAR MURPHY NORTH CAROLINA. THUNDERSTORMS SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP DURING THE AFTER4NOON AND EVENING HOURS. BE MINDFUL OF PERSONAL SAFETY AND LISTEN TO LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON TELEVISION...COMMERCIAL RADIO OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO.
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 2:06 PM EDT, 1 minute before
GAZ059-060-073-110-130-192005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 203 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 1994 AT 155 PM WEATHER RADAR IN MACON SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA. SOME THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM MACHEN IN JASPER COUNTY SOUTHEAST TO NEAR MILLEDGEVILLE IN BALDWIN COUNTY. ALSO THUNDERSTORMS WERE ON THE TELFAIR AND BEN HILL COUNTY LINE NEAR JACKSONVILLE GEORGIA IN TELFAIR COUNTY. VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF< RAIN. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE SOME MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT CLOUD. PRECAUTIONS SHOULD BE TAKEN EVEN THOUGH THE THUNDERSTORM IS NOT DIRECTLY OVERHEAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 9:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lincoln, Wilkes | 54 min |
| Jul 19, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 50 min |
| Jul 19, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike, Upson | 40 min |
| Jul 19, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 35 min |
| Jul 19, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 62 min |
| Jul 19, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 54 min |
| Jul 19, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 45 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.