Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 1994, 1:56 PM EDT for Washington County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 1, 1994, 1:56 PM EDT (17:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 1994, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 708 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAGS 011756 SVRAGS GAC303-011845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA 156 PM EDT SUN MAY 1 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 150 PM EDT WEATHER RADARS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY JUST NORTH OF THE TOWN OF DEEPSTEP. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. 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, May 1, 1:12 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
GAZ071>073-082-011815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 112 PM EDT SUN MAY 1 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN MIDDLE GEORGIA... AT 1:10 PM... RADAR AT MACON WAS SHOWING A SHORT BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS... SOME PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN... FROM WESTERN BIBB COOUNTY ACROSS JONES AND BALDWIN COUNTIES. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING JUST WEST OF MILLEDGEVILLE IN BALDWIN COUNTY... NEAR GRAY IN JONES COUNTY... AND NEAR LIZELLA IN BIBB COUNTY. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD ALSO CAUSE STRONG WINDS... AND WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH.
Special weather statement, May 1, 1:12 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
GAZ071>073-082-011815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 112 PM EDT SUN MAY 1 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN MIDDLE GEORGIA... AT 1:10 PM... RADAR AT MACON WAS SHOWING A SHORT BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS... SOME PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN... FROM WESTERN BIBB COOUNTY ACROSS JONES AND BALDWIN COUNTIES. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING JUST WEST OF MILLEDGEVILLE IN BALDWIN COUNTY... NEAR GRAY IN JONES COUNTY... AND NEAR LIZELLA IN BIBB COUNTY. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD ALSO CAUSE STRONG WINDS... AND WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH.
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.