Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1994, 11:14 PM EDT for Gilmer County, Pickens County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1994, 11:14 PM EDT (03:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1994, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gilmer County, GA, Pickens County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 898 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1060 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KATL 150316 SVRFFC GAC123-227-150400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1114 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN GILMER COUNTY...PICKENS COUNTY AT 1115 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL JUST WEST OF JASPER. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 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, May 14, 10:21 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
GAZ005>007-011>013-019>022-030>034-041>046-052>058-066>070-150420- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1021 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST AND WESTCENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 2 AM EDT... AT 1020 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR CHATTANOOGA SOUTH TO NEAR ROME AND ON SOUTHWEST INTO ALABAMA NEAR ANNISTON. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MARCHING EAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 14, 10:22 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
GAZ005>007-011>013-019>022-030>034-041>046-052>058-066>070-150420- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1021 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST AND WESTCENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 2 AM EDT... AT 1020 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR CHATTANOOGA SOUTH TO NEAR ROME AND ON SOUTHWEST INTO ALABAMA NEAR ANNISTON. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MARCHING EAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 14, 10:35 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
GAZ008>010-014>018-023>029-035>038-047>051-150340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1035 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM EDT FOR UNION...DAWSON AND LUMPKIN COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA... AT 1030 PM SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL WERE OVER HALL...DAWSON...LUMPKIN AND HABERSHAM COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED JUST WEST OF DAHLONEGA...NEAR LULA AND NEAR CORNELIA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. REMEMBER KEEP INDOORS WHEN THUNDERSTROMS ARE OCCURRING. KEEP AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ALSO A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD MOVED INTO NORTHWEST GEORGIA. THIS LINE EXTENDED FROM NEAR CROSSVILLE TENNESSEE...SOUTHWARD...TO NEAR PIEDMONT ALABAMA. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR ROME AND CEDARTOWN. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 14, 10:45 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
GAZAL048-150450- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS, GEORGIA 1045 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 200 AM EDT... AT 1040 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR ROME GEORGIA SOUTHWESTWARD TO TALLADEGA ALABAMA. ALSO...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF BIRMINGHAM...WHILE A DEVELOPING STORM WAS BETWEEN ALEXANDER CITY AND WADLEY ALABAMA. INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH...WHILE THE LINE WAS ADVANCING SLOWLY EASTWARD. SOME OF THESE STORMS PRODUCED WIND DAMAGE AND LARGE HAIL OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ALABAMA EARLIER THIS EVENING. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND LISTEN FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 14, 10:45 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
GAZ008>010-014>018-023>029-035>038-047>051-150340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1035 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM EDT FOR UNION...DAWSON AND LUMPKIN COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA... AT 1030 PM SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL WERE OVER HALL...DAWSON...LUMPKIN AND HABERSHAM COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED JUST WEST OF DAHLONEGA...NEAR LULA AND NEAR CORNELIA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. REMEMBER KEEP INDOORS WHEN THUNDERSTROMS ARE OCCURRING. KEEP AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ALSO A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN HAD MOVED INTO NORTHWEST GEORGIA. THIS LINE EXTENDED FROM NEAR CROSSVILLE TENNESSEE...SOUTHWARD...TO NEAR PIEDMONT ALABAMA. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATE D NEAR ROME AND CEDARTOWN. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 14, 10:49 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
GAZAL048-150450- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS, GEORGIA 1045 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 200 AM EDT... AT 1040 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR ROME GEORGIA SOUTHWESTWARD TO TALLADEGA ALABAMA. ALSO...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF BIRMINGHAM...WHILE A DEVELOPING STORM WAS BETWEEN ALEXANDER CITY AND WADLEY ALABAMA. INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH...WHILE THE LINE WAS ADVANCING SLOWLY EASTWARD. SOME OF THESE STORMS PRODUCED WIND DAMAGE AND LARGE HAIL OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ALABAMA EARLIER THIS EVENING. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND LISTEN FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 9:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 41 min |
| May 14, 11:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Jackson | 69 min |
| May 15, 1:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Jackson | 50 min |
| May 15, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 49 min |
| May 15, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 57 min |
| May 15, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 49 min |
| May 15, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jenkins, Screven | 40 min |
| May 15, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Screven | 68 min |
| May 15, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 46 min |
| May 15, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 42 min |
| May 15, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Meriwether | 52 min |
| May 15, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Warren | 68 min |
| May 15, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jenkins, Screven | 48 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.