Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1994, 5:36 PM EDT for Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1994, 5:36 PM EDT (21:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1994, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Whitfield County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KCHA 252137 RRA SVRCHA GAC313-TNC121-143-252230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN 536 PM EDT WED MAY 25 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHATTANOOGA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...WHITFIELD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE ...MEIGS COUNTY...RHEA COUNTY WEATHER RADAR INDICATES POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN RHEA COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO MEIGS COUNTY SOON. ANOTHER POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST MOVING INTO WHITFIELD COUNTY GEORGIA FROM CATTOSA COUNTY. IT TOO WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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 25, 4:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
GAZ005>007-011>013-019>022-030>034-041>046-052>058-066>070-252225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 426 PM EDT WED MAY 25 1994 ....THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 425 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTH- WEST GEORGIA FROM ALONG THE ALABAMA BORDER BETWEEN LAGRANGE AND CEDARTOWN TO THE ATLANTA METROPLITIAN AREA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN DOUGLAS COUNTY NEAR DOUGLASVILLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND DISSIPATE ACROSS NORTHWEST GEORGIA INTO THE EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, May 25, 4:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
GAZ005>007-011>013-019>022-030>034-041>046-052>058-066>070-252225- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 426 PM EDT WED MAY 25 1994 ....THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 425 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTH- WEST GEORGIA FROM ALONG THE ALABAMA BORDER BETWEEN LAGRANGE AND CEDARTOWN TO THE ATLANTA METROPLITIAN AREA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN DOUGLAS COUNTY NEAR DOUGLASVILLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND DISSIPATE ACROSS NORTHWEST GEORGIA INTO THE EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
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.