Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1994, 3:27 PM EDT for Habersham County, Rabun County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 1994, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1994, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Habersham County, GA, Rabun County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 969 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAHN 271928 SVRAHN GAC137-241-272030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 327 PM EDT WED APR 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATHENS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...HABERSHAM COUNTY...RABUN COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN EXTREME NORTHWEST HABERSHAM COUNTY...ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF CORNELIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR 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, Apr 27, 2:43 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
GAZ008>010-014>018-023>029-035>038-047>051-271935- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 240 PM EDT WED APR 27 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 900 PM EDT... AT 230 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE HAIL ACROSS EXTREME WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA WEST INTO SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE FROM FONTANA LAKE NORTH CAROLINA TO JUST NORTH OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE. LINE MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO EXTREME NORTH GEORGIA...MOUNTAINS AREAS IN THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SEEK SHELTER. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS A FEW WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE INDICATED ACROSS MUCH OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND EAST TENNESSEE AND THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE EAS&T AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 3:18 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
GAZ005>007-011>013-019>022-030>034-041>046-052>058-066>070-272120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 318 PM EDT WED APR 27 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA UNTIL 9 PM EDT... AT 310 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO EXTREME NORTH GEORGIA FROM SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST SOUTHEAST OF BLUE RIDGE AND JUST NORTHWEST OF CHATSWORTH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. CONSIDERABLE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS ALSO LIKELY. PERSONS ACROSS NORTH GEOXRGIA SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE ON THE ALERT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS AND BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Union | 33 min |
| Apr 27, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 43 min |
| Apr 27, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Rockdale | 40 min |
| Apr 27, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 40 min |
| Apr 27, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas | 55 min |
| Apr 27, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 43 min |
| Apr 27, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 43 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.