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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 28, 1990Twiggs County, Wilkinson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1990, 5:38 PM EDT for Twiggs County, Wilkinson County, Georgia. It was in force for 67 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 28, 1990, 5:38 PM EDT (21:38 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 1990, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Twiggs County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 28, 6:10 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Twiggs, GA
Apr 28, 6:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Wilkinson, GA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 135 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMCN 282138
SVRMCN
GAC289-319-282245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
538 PM EDT SAT APR 28 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
          ...TWIGGS...WILKINSON
 
AT 530 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR LOCATED SEVERAL SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS OVER HOUSTON AND TWIGGS COUNTIES MOVING NORTHEAST
INTO WILKINSON COUNTY AT 40 MPH.
 
AT 530 PM THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR PERRY IN
HOUSTON COUNTY...NEAR JEFFERSONVILLE IN TWIGGS COUNTY AND NEAR
GORDON IN WILKINSON COUNTY.
 
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

Local storm report, Apr 28, 4:49 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
445PM SAT APR 28, 1990

COUNTY........ MADISON

SOURCE........ SHF OFFICE

TIME.......... 430 PM EDT

LOCATION...... EAST PART OF MADISON COUNTY
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TYPE STORM.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND PSBL TORNADO

HAIL.......... MARBLE   SIZE COVERING GROUND

DAMAGE........TREES DOWN

INJURIES...... UNKNOW AT THIS TIME

Local storm report, Apr 28, 4:59 PM EDT, 39 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
455PM SAT APR 28, 1990

COUNTY........ OGLETHORPE

SOURCE........ PUBLIC

TIME.......... 453PM EDTT

LOCATION...... OGLETHORPE COUNTY OFF HWY 78 ONP WOLFSKIN ROAD

TYPE STORM.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM

HAIL.......... MARBLE   SIZE COVERING GROUND

DAMAGE........

INJURIES......

Local storm report, Apr 28, 5:06 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
505PM SAT APR 28, 1990

COUNTY........ OGLETHORPE

SOURCE........ PUBLIC

TIME.......... 505PM EDTT

LOCATION...... OGLETHORPE COUNTY CRAWFORD , GA[

TYPE STORM.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM

HAIL.......... MARBLE   SIZE COVERING GROUND

DAMAGE........ WINDS 60 MPH

INJURIES......

Local storm report, Apr 28, 5:08 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
505PM SAT APR 28, 1990

COUNTY........ HART

SOURCE........ SHF

TIME.......... 450PM EDTT

LOCATION...... HART STATE PARK

TYPE STORM.... SEVERE] THUNDERSTORM PSBL TORNADO

HAIL.......... MARBLE   SIZE COVERING GROUND

DAMAGE........ TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

INJURIES......UNKNOW

Local storm report, Apr 28, 5:20 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
515PM SAT APR 28, 1990

COUNTY........ ELBERT

SOURCE........ SHF

TIME.......... 515PM EDT

LOCATION...... CITY OF ELBERTON

TYPE STORM.... SEVErRE THUNDERSTORM

HAIL.......... MARBLE   SIZE COVERING GROUND

DAMAGE........ UNKNOWN

INJURIES......UNKNOW

Local storm report, Apr 28, 5:36 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
535 PM EDT SAT APR 28 1990

COUNTY........ MADISON

SOURCE........ PUBLIC

TIME.......... 500PM EDT

LOCATION...... BETWEEN ILA AND NEECE

TYPE STORM.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM

HAIL.......... PEA TO MARBLE SIZE COVERING GROUND

DAMAGE........UNKNOWN

INJURIES......UNKNOWN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 1:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll	41 min
Apr 28, 1:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Douglas, Paulding	43 min
Apr 28, 1:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gordon, Murray	40 min
Apr 28, 1:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	47 min
Apr 28, 1:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer	40 min
Apr 28, 1:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee	53 min
Apr 28, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Fayette	53 min
Apr 28, 2:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	51 min
Apr 28, 2:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	47 min
Apr 28, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Fulton	43 min
Apr 28, 2:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	54 min
Apr 28, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Lumpkin	67 min
Apr 28, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Union	67 min
Apr 28, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton	43 min
Apr 28, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Gwinnett	52 min
Apr 28, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns, White	59 min
Apr 28, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall	59 min
Apr 28, 3:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Henry, Spalding	52 min
Apr 28, 3:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fayette	52 min
Apr 28, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Oconee, Walton	63 min
Apr 28, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Peach	66 min
Apr 28, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Madison, Oglethorpe	61 min
Apr 28, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan	61 min
Apr 28, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Habersham	61 min
Apr 28, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pike	54 min
Apr 28, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar, Upson	45 min
Apr 28, 4:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Madison	60 min
Apr 28, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Twiggs	41 min
Apr 28, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Franklin, Stephens	2 hr
Apr 28, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Elbert, Hart	2 hr
Apr 28, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Monroe	41 min
Apr 28, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilkinson	45 min
Apr 28, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke, Oconee, Oglethorpe	62 min
Apr 28, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	60 min
Apr 28, 5:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston	44 min
Apr 28, 5:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Washington	36 min
Apr 28, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley	41 min
Apr 28, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pulaski	60 min
Apr 28, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	45 min
Apr 28, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Burke, Jefferson	55 min
Apr 28, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	62 min
Apr 28, 7:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Treutlen	64 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.