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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 265, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 5, 1994Meriwether County, Troup County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1994, 1:56 AM EDT for Meriwether County, Troup County, Georgia. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 5, 1994, 1:56 AM EDT (05:56 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 1994, 3:00 AM EDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Meriwether County, GA, Troup County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 177 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 875 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KATL 050600 RRA
SVRATL
GAC199-285-050700-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
156 AM EDT FRI AUG 5 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...MERIWETHER COUNTY...TROUP COUNTY
 
AT 155 AM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
OVER SOUTHERN TROUP COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH
AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTER MERIWETHER COUNTY BY 220 AM EDT.
 
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.
 
KM

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, Aug 4, 8:00 PM EDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before

LOCAL SOTRM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
800 PM EDT THU AUG 4 1994
RESENT 548 PM EDT MON SEP 5 1994

   ...SUSPECT ORRIG NEVER XMTD...

COUNTY..... IRWIN  FIPS 155
SOURCE..... SHERIFF DEPARTMENT AND IRWIN CO. EMC
TIME....... 630 PM EDT
LOCATION... CITY OF OCILLA  AND WEST PORTION OF COUNTY.
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE
HAIL....... NONE REPORTED
DAMAGE..... ROOF BLOWN OFF PHARMACY (DRUGSTORE). POWER LINES DOWN
            AROUND CITY AND COUNTY.
TREES...... MANY TREES ALSO BLOWN DOWN ACROSS COUNTY.
INJURIES... NONE REPORTED
COST....... UNKNOWN

Local storm report, Aug 4, 8:01 PM EDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
800 PM EDT THU AUG 4 1994

COUNTY..... IRWIN  FIPS 155
SOURCE..... SHERIFF DEPARTMENT AND IRWIN CO. EMC
TIME....... 630 PM EDT
LOCATION... CITY OF OCILLA  AND WEST PORTION OF COUNTY.
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE
HAIL....... NONE REPORTED
DAMAGE..... ROOF BLOWN OFF PHARMACY (DRUGSTORE). POWER LINES DOWN
            AROUND CITY AND COUNTY.
TREES...... MANY TREES ALSO BLOWN DOWN ACROSS COUNTY.
INJURIES... NONE REPORTED
COST....... UNKNOWN

Local storm report, Aug 4, 8:14 PM EDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
814 PM EDT THU AUG 4 1994
RESENT 550 PM EDT MON SEP 5 1994
  ...SUSPECT ORRIG NEVER XMTD...

COUNTY..... TURNER FIPS 287
SOURCE..... IRWIN CO. EMC
TIME....... 650 PM EDT
LOCATION... EAST PORTION OF TURNER COUNTY. ALONG HIGHWAY 32 AT 10 MILES
            SOUTHEAST OF ASHBURN.
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE
HAIL....... NONE REPORTED
DAMAGE..... POWERLINES BLOWN DOWN BY THUNDERSTORM WINDS.
TREES...... TREES UPROOTED AND BLOWN ACROSS HIGHWAY..

Local storm report, Aug 4, 8:14 PM EDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
814 PM EDT THU AUG 4 1994
RESENT 550 PM EDT MON SEP 5 1994
  ...SUSPECT ORRIG NEVER XMTD...

COUNTY..... TURNER FIPS 287
SOURCE..... IRWIN CO. EMC
TIME....... 650 PM EDT
LOCATION... EAST PORTION OF TURNER COUNTY. ALONG HIGHWAY 32 AT 10 MILES
            SOUTHEAST OF ASHBURN.
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE
HAIL....... NONE REPORTED
DAMAGE..... POWERLINES BLOWN DOWN BY THUNDERSTORM WINDS.
TREES...... TREES UPROOTED AND BLOWN ACROSS HIGHWAY..

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 1:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp, Dooly	62 min
Aug 5, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	67 min
Aug 5, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair	62 min

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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.