Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1994, 2:36 PM EDT for Allendale County, South Carolina. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1994, 2:36 PM EDT (18:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1994, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Allendale County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 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
- 977 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 626 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA
236 PM EDT SUN MAY 15 1994
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
IN WEST CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
...EASTERN ALLENDALE COUNTY
WEATHER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEASTERN ALLENDALE
COUNTY SOUTH CAROLINA, MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS IS A VERY STRONG
THUNDERSTORM AND INDICATES HAIL.
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.
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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 15, 2:03 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
GAZ008>010-014>018-023>029-035>038-047>051-151840- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 205 PM EDT SUN MAY 15 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 800 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA... DAWSON...UNION...TOWNS...RABUN...LUMPKIN...WHITE...HABERSHAM... HALL...BANKS...JACKSON...BARROW...WALTON...AND NEWTON. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DEVELOPING ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STAY ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THUNDERSTORMS SEEK SHELTER QUICKLY. THUNDERSTORMS MAY HAVE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..AND POSSIBLE HAIL.
Special weather statement, May 15, 2:05 PM EDT, 31 minutes before
GAZ008>010-014>018-023>029-035>038-047>051-151840- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 205 PM EDT SUN MAY 15 1994 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 800 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA... DAWSON...UNION...TOWNS...RABUN...LUMPKIN...WHITE...HABERSHAM... HALL...BANKS...JACKSON...BARROW...WALTON...AND NEWTON. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DEVELOPING ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STAY ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THUNDERSTORMS SEEK SHELTER QUICKLY. THUNDERSTORMS MAY HAVE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..AND POSSIBLE HAIL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Allendale | 68 min |
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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.