Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1994, 8:58 PM EDT for Bleckley County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 1994, 8:58 PM EDT (00:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1994, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bleckley County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 336 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 970 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMCN 060058 RRA SVRMCN GAC023-060145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 858 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON GA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...BLECKLEY COUNTY ...AT 857 PM EDT MACON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF COCHRAN MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WAS JUST MOVING INTO BLECKLEY COUNTY TOWARDS COCHRAN. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 5, 7:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 750 PM EDT FRI AUG 05 1994 COUNTY...... WORTH COUNTY...GEORGIA SOURCE...... SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT TIME........ 415 PM EDT...FRI AUG 5 LOCATION.... HWY 112 NEAR SYLVESTER TYPE STORM.. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE...... LARGE TREE FELL ACROSS ROAD INJURIES.... NONE REPORTED DEATHS...... NONE REPORTED
Local storm report, Aug 5, 7:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 750 PM EDT FRI AUG 05 1994 COUNTY...... WORTH COUNTY...GEORGIA SOURCE...... SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT TIME........ 415 PM EDT...FRI AUG 5 LOCATION.... HWY 112 NEAR SYLVESTER TYPE STORM.. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE...... LARGE TREE FELL ACROSS ROAD INJURIES.... NONE REPORTED DEATHS...... NONE REPORTED
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 7:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
GAZ071-081>083-095-060100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 755 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 1994 ...SERVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 9 PM EDT... AT 750 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN FORSYTH AND ROBERTA ON THE MONROE..CRAWFORD AND BIBB COUNTIES LINE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR ANOTHER STORM WAS JUST 5 MILES WEST OF ROBERTA. THIS STORM MOVING INTO BIBB COUNTY COULD HAVE STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO NEAR 40 MILES AN HOUR. SMALL HAIL AND VERY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL AO ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. PERSONS IN THE MACON METROPOLITAN AREA ARE ADVISED THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING NEAR THE CITY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 7:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
GAZ071-081>083-095-060100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 755 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 1994 ...SERVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 9 PM EDT... AT 750 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN FORSYTH AND ROBERTA ON THE MONROE..CRAWFORD AND BIBB COUNTIES LINE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR ANOTHER STORM WAS JUST 5 MILES WEST OF ROBERTA. THIS STORM MOVING INTO BIBB COUNTY COULD HAVE STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO NEAR 40 MILES AN HOUR. SMALL HAIL AND VERY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL AO ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. PERSONS IN THE MACON METROPOLITAN AREA ARE ADVISED THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING NEAR THE CITY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 8:17 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
GAZ127-129-144>147-060120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 817 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR MITCHELL COOK COLQUITT WORTH AND TIFT COUNTIES... AT 814 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTH OF TIFTON IN TIFT COUNTY TO NORTH OF BAINBRIDGE IN DECATUR COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED WEST OF PELHAM IN MITCHELL COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 8:18 PM EDT, 40 minutes before
GAZ127-129-144>147-060120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 817 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR MITCHELL COOK COLQUITT WORTH AND TIFT COUNTIES... AT 814 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTH OF TIFTON IN TIFT COUNTY TO NORTH OF BAINBRIDGE IN DECATUR COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED WEST OF PELHAM IN MITCHELL COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 52 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.