Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 1994, 2:05 PM EST for Catoosa County, Walker County, Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 1994, 2:05 PM EST (19:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1994, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Catoosa County, GA, Walker County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 194 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 KCHA 271906 TORCHA GAC047-295-313-272000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TN 205 PM EST SUN MAR 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHATTANOOGA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...CATOOSA COUNTY...SOUTHERN WALKER COUNTY...WHITFIELD COUNTY WALKER COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN AT 155 PM EST IN WALKER COUNTY AT NEW HOPE NEAR TRION AND AT NOBLE JUST NORTH OF LAFAYETTE. WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN WALKER COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO WHITFIELD AND CATOOSA COUNTIES OF EXTREME NORTHWEST GEORGIA SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 3:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 38 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 |
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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.