Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1990, 2:32 PM EDT for Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1990, 2:32 PM EDT (18:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1990, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Laurens 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMCN 081833
SVRMCN
GAC175-081915-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
232 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
...LAURENS
AT 230 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF
THE TOWN OF DUDLEY GEORGIA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MPH.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.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 8, 1:58 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-082000
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
200 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 1990
....STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA....
AT 145 PM WEATHER RADAR IN MACON SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING
TO DEVELOPE AROUND CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE STRONG STORM AT THIS TIME
WAS IN HOUSTON COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF WARNER ROBINS. VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT
WAS INDICATED.
ELSEWHERE SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO NOTED IN SOUTHEAST
GEORGIA IN BULLOCH COUNTY SOUTH OF STATESBORO GEORGIA. ANOTHER GROUP
OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED NORTHWEST OF ALBANY GEORGIA.
STRONG GUSTY WINDS..HEAVY RAINFALL..LIGHTNING AND HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY
THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON.
DUE TO THE HEAT AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER THE AREA THIS THUNDERSTORMS
WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOPE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
PERSONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REMAIN
ALERtT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND MOVE INDOORS UNTIL THEY PASS.Special weather statement, Jun 8, 2:16 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
GAZ005-008-081915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 215 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA... AT 210 PM WEATHER RADAR IN COLUMBUS SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BEGINING TO DEVEOLPE IN RANDOLP AND TERRELL COUNTIES AND JUST SOUTHEAST OF BLAKELY IN EARLY COUNTY. STRONG GUSTY WINDS..HEAVY RAINFALL..LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. PERSONS IN OR NEAR THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND MOVE INDOORS UNTIL THEY PASS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Richmond | 34 min |
| Jun 8, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 53 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.