Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1994, 5:10 PM EST for Screven County, Georgia. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 1994, 5:10 PM EST (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 1994, 6:15 PM EST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Screven County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 587 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 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 KAGS 242211 RRA SVRAGS GAC251-242315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA 510 PM EST THU MAR 24 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...SCREVEN COUNTY AT 5:05 EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN WESTERN SCREVEN COUNTY. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. IT WILL BE IN THE TOWN OF SYLVANIA WITHIN THE NEXT TEN TO FIFTEEN MINUTES. 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
Special weather statement, Mar 24, 1:43 PM EST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
GAZ096-097-098-105-107-109-106-108-128-130-131-140515- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 140 PM EST THU MAR 24 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERTORMS MOVING INTO THE CENTRAL GEORGIA AREA... SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO CENTRAL GEORGIA DURING THE PAST HALF HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER THE CRAWFORD/PEACH COUNTY LINE AT 135 PM MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WIND...LIGHTNING... AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AS THEY PASS LOCALLY. BE PREPARED TO GET TO SAFE SHELTER IF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PASS NEARBY.
Special weather statement, Mar 24, 1:54 PM EST, 3 hours 16 minutes before
GAZ071-073-081-082-083-084-094-095-242100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 153 PM EST THU MAR 24 1994 ...CORRECTION FOR ZONES... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE CENTRAL GEORGIA AREA... SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO CENTRAL GEORGIA DURING THE PAST HALF HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER THE CRAWFORD/PEACH COUNTY LINE AT 135...JUST WEST OF MACON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WIND...LIGHTNING... AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AS THE PASS LOCALLY. BE PREPARED TO GET TO SAFE SHELTER IF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PASS NEARBY.
Special weather statement, Mar 24, 2:55 PM EST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
GAZ073-083-094-095-242100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 253 PM EST THU MAR 24 1994 ...SEVERAL HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 250 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS LOCATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER MILLEDGEVILLE...NEAR FORT VALLEY...AND ACROSS CENTRAL HOUSTON COUNTY EAST OF PERRY ALL MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO PRODUCE LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WIND... HEAVY RAINFALL AND SOMETIMES HAIL AS THEY PASS NEARBY. THE STRONGEST WIND GUST REPORTED WAS AROUND 30 MPH WHEN A THUNDERSTORM PASSED OVER THE COLUMBUS AREA. RAINFALL ACCUMMULATION WAS ABOUT ONE INCH DURING THE THUNDERSTORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMXS PASS NEARBY...BE PREPARED TO GET TO SAFE SHELTER. &
Special weather statement, Mar 24, 3:58 PM EST, 1 hour 12 minutes before
GAZ083-084-096-097-242200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 357 PM EST THU MAR 24 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM NORTH OF COCHRAN... AT 355 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS LOCATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM NORTH OF COCHRAN ALONG THE TWIGGS AND BLECKLEY COUTY LINE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WIND...HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS IT MOVES EAST2. PERSONS NEAR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO GET TO SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS PASSES.
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.