Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1990, 5:10 PM EDT for Bibb County, Georgia. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1990, 5:10 PM EDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1990, 6:07 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bibb County, GA
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1343 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1043 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jun 7, 2:31 PM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
GAZ001-004 062000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 230 PM EDT THU JUN 7 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTH GEORGIA... AT 225 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED WIDELY SCATTERD THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE NORTHERN THIRD OF GEORGIA. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR CALHOUN... SOUTHEAST OF LA FAYETTE AND NORTH OF FAIRBURN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL )AND GUSTY WINDS MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE SOUTHEASTWARD. RESIDENTS OF NORTH GEORGIA ARE ADVISED TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 2:46 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
GAZ002-004-071940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 243 PM EDT THU JUN 7 1990 . . . . .THUNDERSTORMS NOW DEVELOPING OVER NORTH GEORGIA. . . . . A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS... CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL WAS INDICATED ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF ATHENS . A SIMILAR THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED NEAR THE ATLANTA AREA. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WE>RE INDICATED OVER THE NORTH HALF OF GEORGIA FROM NEAR MACON NORTHWARD WITH THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING INTO ADJACENT AREAS OF EAST ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE AND WESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA FROM NEAR AUGUSTA TO THE COLUMBIA AREA.
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 3:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
GAZ002-004-072040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 340 PM EDT THU JUN 7 1990 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SEVERAL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WIND...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL WERE INDICATED OVER THE NORTH HALF OF GEORGIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED INTO THE ADJACENT AREAS OF EAST ALABAMA TO JUST SOUTH OF ANNISTON AND FROM NEAR AUGUSTA TO THE COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLINA VICINITY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA...TO THE EAST OF CALHOUN AND JUST TO THE WEST OF ATLANTA. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO LOCATED TO THE NORTH AND EAST OF ATHENS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST ATr 15 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 4:25 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
GAZ001-004-072200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 425 PM EDT THU JUN 7 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SECTIONS OF NORTH GEORGIA... AT 415 PM RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR AUSTELL IN SOUTH COBB COUNTY...AND FROM NEAR FAIRBURN IN FULTON COUNTY TO JUST NORTHWEST OF NEWNAN IN COWETA COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE DRIFTING EASTWARD. HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND SOME SMALL HAIL ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. THE TREND OF THESE STORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS HAS BEEN TO GROW RAPIDLY...THEN WEAKEN ALMOST AS QUICKLY AS THEY DEVELOPED. STILL...PERSONS IN NORTH GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR QUICK CHANGES IN SKY CONDITIONS... ESPECIALLY IF YOU PLAN TO GO OUTDOORS LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THE STORMS SHOULD BEGIN TO DISSIPATE SOMETIME DURING THE EVENING HOURS TONIGHT
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 4:33 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
GAZ002-004-072140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 430 PM EDT THU JUN 7 1990 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SEVERAL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WIND...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL WERE INDICATED OVER THE NORTH HALF OF GEORGIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WERE 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HARTSFIELD AIRPORT NEAR ATLANTA...JUST SOUTH OF MACON AND ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ATHENS. PERSONS IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS UNTIL THESE STORMS DISIPATE OR MOVE THROUGH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 41 min |
| Jun 7, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 40 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.