Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 246, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1994, 3:35 PM EDT for Pike County, Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 1994, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1994, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pike County, GA, Upson County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 144 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 191939 RRA SVRATL GAC231-293-192015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 335 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN PIKE COUNTY...UPSON COUNTY AT 3:33 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN PIKE COUNTY...SOUTH OF ZEBULON. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN THE CITY OF THOMASTON SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER AS THESE SEVERE STORMS PASS OVERHEAD. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. TORRENTIAL RAINS CAN FLOOD ROADWAYS QUICKLY. BE SMART AND USE COMMON SENSE...SLOW DOWN...HEAVY RAINS CAN CAUSE HYDROPLANING! 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
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 2:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 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 CONTI\NUE 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, 2:50 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
GAZ008>010-014>018-023>029-035>038-047>051-191930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 250 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN NORTH GEORGIA... AT 245 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING LOCATED NEAR COPPERHILL AND OVER TALIAFERRO AND GREENE COUNTIES. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INCICATED WITH THESE STORMS. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE OCCURING ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF GEORGIA... CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND EAST TENNESSEE. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED NEAR FORSYTH GEORGIA AND AIKEN SOUTH CAROLINA. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED.
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 2:53 PM EDT, 42 minutes before
GAZ008>010-014>018-023>029-035>038-047>051-191930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 250 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN NORTH GEORGIA... AT 145 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING LOCATED NEAR COPPERHILL AND OVER TALIAFERRO AND GREENE COUNTIES. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INCICATED WITH THESE STORMS. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE OCCURING ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF GEORGIA... CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND EAST TENNESSEE. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED NEAR FORSYTH GEORGIA AND AIKEN SOUTH CAROLINA. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED.
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 2:56 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
GAZ008>010-014>018-023>029-035>038-047>051-191930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 250 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN NORTH GEORGIA... AT 245 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING LOCATED NEAR COPPERHILL AND OVER TALIAFERRO AND GREENE COUNTIES. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INCICATED WITH THESE STORMS. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE OCCURING ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF GEORGIA... CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND EAST TENNESSEE. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED NEAR FORSYTH GEORGIA AND AIKEN SOUTH CAROLINA. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED.
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 3:05 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
GAZ080-093-104-125-126-142-192010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 305 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 1994 AT 302 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR REYNOLDS TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF MONTEZUMA. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AMERICUS ALONG THE SUMTER-LEE COUNTY LINE...15 MILES WEST OF ALBANY AND 10 MILES NORTH OF BLAKELY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 3:06 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
GAZ080-093-104-125-126-142-192010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 305 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 1994 AT 302 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR REYNOLDS TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF MONTEZUMA. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AMERICUS ALONG THE SUMTER-LEE COUNTY LINE...15 MILES WEST OF ALBANY AND 10 MILES NORTH OF BLAKELY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
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, 2:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 53 min |
| Jul 19, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 50 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.