Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 259, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1994, 3:18 PM EDT for Wilcox County, Georgia. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 1994, 3:18 PM EDT (19:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1994, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilcox County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 571 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 KMCN 281917 RRA SVRMCN GAC315-282015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 318 PM EDT THU JUL 28 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON GA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...WILCOX COUNTY AT 317 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS GROWING RAPIDLY WHILE MOVING EAST 10 MILES AN HOUR FROM WESTERN WILCOX COUNTY HEADED DIRECTLY TO ROCHELLE. IT WILL AFFECT THE ROCHELLE AREA BY 345 PM AND PASS THROUGH OR NEAR ROCHELLE BY 415 PM EDT. THIS STORM CONTAINS HAIL VERY HEAVY INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG WINDS. 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.
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 28, 9:29 AM EDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 12:22 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
GAZ097-098-112-130-131-281725- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 1222 PM EDT THU JUL 28 1994 AT 1220 PM EDT MACON RADAR SHOWED SEVERAL LARGE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA. SOME OF THE LARGEST WERE AT THE DODGE COUNTY/LAURENS COUNTY LINE EAST OF EASTMAN AND AT SOPERTON IN TREUTLEN COUNTY AND JUST NORTH OF MOUNT VERNON IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. OTHERS WERE 10 TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FITZGERALD APPROACHING BEN HILL COUNTY FROM IRWIN COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING SLOWLY NORTH AND WILL FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS IN THEIR PATH. STAY AWAY FROM STANDING WATER AREAS AND MOVE EQUIPMENT AND PETS TO HIGHER GROUND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO FOR UPDATES ON THIS STORM ACTIVITY.
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 2:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
GAZ081-128-130-131-281915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 215 PM EDT THU JUL 28 1994 AT 210 PM EDT MACON RADAR SHOWED A NEW LINE OF SHOWERS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD DEVELOPED AND RANGED FROM CRAWFORD COUNTY SOUTH OF ROBERTA TO OGLETHORPE IN MACON COUNTY TO JUST NORTH OF AMERICUS IN SUMTER COUTY. NEWLY FORMED..NO MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED WITH THESE STRONG SHOWERS. ELSEWHERE AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH HAVE VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED IN SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA TO SOUTHEAST GEORGIA FROM SWAINSBORO SOUTHWEST THROUGH LUMBER CITY ON THE WHEELER COUNTY/TELFAIR COUNTY LINE. STILL ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS CENTERED JUST 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF ASHBURN IN TURNER COUNTY. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST 5 TO 10 MILES AN HOUR. WITH THIS SLOW MOVEMENT LOW AREAS WILL LIKELY BE FLOODED FOR AN HOUR OR TWO THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE OFF TO THE EAST. STAY TUNED TO RADIO FOR UPDATES ON DEVELOPING WEATHER.
Nearby
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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.