Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 1994, 3:22 PM EST for Floyd County, Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 1994, 3:22 PM EST (20:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1994, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Floyd County, GA, Polk County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 530 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 654 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 272023 SVRATL GAC115-233-272100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 322 PM EST SUN MAR 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...FLOYD COUNTY...NORTHERN POLK COUNTY AT 320 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAD MOVED FROM ALABAMA INTO GEORGIA ALONG THE FLOYD-POLK COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH WHICH SHOULD TAKE IT JUST SOUTH OF ROME. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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 27, 12:32 PM EST, 2 hours 50 minutes before
GAZ008>010-014>018-023>029-035>038-047>051-271830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1230 PM EST SUN MAR 27 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA FROM 1 PM EST TO 7 PM EST... AT 1230PM EST...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST NORTH OF ANNISTON. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA AND EAST TENNESSEE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Mar 27, 12:47 PM EST, 2 hours 35 minutes before
GAZ008-009-010-014-015-016-017-018-023-024-025-026-027-028-029- 035-036-037-038-047-048-049-050-051-271845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1245 PM EST SUN MAR 27 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM EST UNTIL 7 PM EST... AT 1245 PM EST...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN THE EFFECT FROM 1 TIL 7 PM EST FOALL COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. AT 1 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ...SOME INTENSE...WERE MOVING INTO NORTHWEST GEORGIA. THE PATHS OF THESE STORMS WILL PUT THEM MOVING OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA LATER THIS AFTERNOON. PERSONS IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS CONDITI4ONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. &
Special weather statement, Mar 27, 1:29 PM EST, 1 hour 53 minutes before
GAZ008-009-010-014-015-016-017-018-023-024-025-026-027-028-029- 035-036-037-038-047-048-049-050-051-271845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 128 PM EST SUN MAR 27 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST FOR ALL COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA... AT 127 PM EST...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A COUPLE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA...NORTHEAST ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS 18 MILES SOUTH OF ROME GEORGIA AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT OVER 60 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER STORMS WERE 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROME AND NEAR TELICO PLAINS TENNESSEE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Mar 27, 1:31 PM EST, 1 hour 51 minutes before
GAZ008-009-010-014-015-016-017-018-023-024-025-026-027-028-029- 035-036-037-038-047-048-049-050-051-271930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 128 PM EST SUN MAR 27 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST FOR ALL COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA... AT 127 PM EST...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A COUPLE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA...NORTHEAST ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE AND SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS 18 MILES SOUTH OF ROME GEORGIA AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT OVER 60 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER STORMS WERE 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROME AND NEAR TELICO PLAINS TENNESSEE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR.
Local storm report, Mar 27, 2:59 PM EST, 23 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 3 PM SUN MAR 27 1994 COUNTY........ LUMPKIN SOURCE........ HAM RADIO NETWORK TIME.......... BETWEEN 230 AND 245 PM EST LOCATION...... NORTH PART OF DAHLONEGA TYPE STORM.... TORNADO HAIL.......... DAMAGE........ AT LEAST TWO HOUSES DESTORYED. INJURIES...... UNKNOWN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield | 55 min |
| Mar 27, 2:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin, White | 40 min |
| Mar 27, 2:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd | 33 min |
| Mar 27, 2:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Habersham, Rabun, White | 53 min |
| Mar 27, 2:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 53 min |
| Mar 27, 3:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 29 min |
| Mar 27, 3:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Gordon, Pickens | 25 min |
| Mar 27, 3:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 34 min |
| Mar 27, 3:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Habersham, Hall | 48 min |
| Mar 27, 3:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Pickens | 39 min |
| Mar 27, 4:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stephens | 27 min |
| Mar 27, 4:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Habersham, White | 38 min |
| Mar 27, 4:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Rabun | 38 min |
| Mar 27, 4:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Habersham, White | 54 min |
| Mar 27, 4:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 54 min |
| Mar 27, 6:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 30 min |
| Mar 27, 6:58 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 32 min |
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.