Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1994, 7:30 PM EST for Troup County, Georgia. It was in force for 15 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 1994, 7:30 PM EST (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 1994, 7:45 PM EST
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Troup County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 5 hours 47 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, 5 hours 36 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, 4 hours 35 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, 3 hours 32 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.
Special weather statement, Mar 24, 5:36 PM EST, 1 hour 54 minutes before
GAZ008>010-014>018-023>029-035>038-047>051-242359- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 535 PM EST THU MAR 24 1993 ...A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE APPROACHING NORTHEAST GEORGIA... THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDED FROM NEAR JASPER TO NEAR ROSWELL GEORGIA AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA FROM NEAR DAWSONVILLE TO GAINESVILLE BE PREPARED FOR THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. THOSE ON LAKE LANIER SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR AT THE FIRST SIGN OF A THUNDERSTORM. REMEMBER THAT THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING SO MOVE INDOORS UNTIL AFTER THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. ELSEWHERE RAIN...SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM MISSISSIPPI TO SOUTH CAROLINA. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA AND WERE LOCATED NEAR NEWINGTON ...JUST NORTH OF SOPERTON...NORTH AND WEST OF MACON AND NEAR RHINE. IN SOUTH bCAROLINA THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED NEAR WINNSBORO...NEAR LAURENS AND OVER LAKE GREENWOOD. ALL ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Mar 24, 6:11 PM EST, 1 hour 19 minutes before
GAZ072-073-109-250015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 610 PM EST THU MAR 24 1994 ...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 605 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR AND THE WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MACON WERE SHOWING STRONG STORMS IN CENTRAL GEORGIA...MAINLY SOUTHEAST OF EASTMAN...NEAR CHAUCEY. OTHER STORMS WERE BETWEEN MACON AND GRAY...AND SOUTHEAST OF MILLEDGEVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS. SMALL HAIL WAS LIKELY FALLING FROM THE STORM NEAR CHAUCEY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 7:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Wheeler | 45 min |
| Mar 24, 8:50 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Upson | 40 min |
| Mar 24, 9:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 32 min |
| Mar 24, 10:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 49 min |
| Mar 25, 1:47 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Richmond | 118 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.