Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 197, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1990, 3:11 PM EDT for Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 9, 1990, 3:11 PM EDT (19:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1990, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Whitfield 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 3:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Whitfield, 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, 7.2 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
- 312 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 870 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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 KCHA 091912 SVRCHA GAC313-092015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE 311 PM EDT SAT JUN 9 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN WHITFIELD COUNTY RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHWEST WHITFIELD COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE ACROSS CARBONDALE AND TILTON GEORGIA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WI?NDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Jun 9, 9:17 AM EDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 915 AM EDT SAT JUN 9 1990 ...REF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OF FRIDAY PM...06/08/90 COUNTY..... EARLY...SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. SOURCE..... THREE NOTCH ELECTRIC TIME...... 245 PM - 315 PM EDT. TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. LOCATION... KOLOMOKI STATE PARK IN NORTHWEST CORNER OF EARLY COUNTY. DAMAGE..... POWER LINE AND SEVERAL TREES DOWN. HAIL....... UNK. INJURIES... NONE REPORTED.
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 2:23 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
GAZ005-008-011-ALZ012-092030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 223 PM EDT SAT JUN 9 1990 AT 120 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR AT COLUMBUS SHOWED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA AS WELL AS OVER SOUTH EAST ALABAMA STRETCHING FROM NEAR TALBOTTON TO COLUMBUS GEORGIA SOUTHWEST TO NEAR TROY ALABAMA. THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST SOUTHEAST OF ELLAVILLE GEORGIA AND JUST SOUTH OF CLAYTON ALABAMA. PERSONS IN WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA AS WELL AS PERSONS IN SOUTH EAST ALABAMA CAN EXPECT VERY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS A POSSIBLE SOME SMALL HAIL ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINFALL. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP>E OVER THIS AREA THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.PERSONS OUT SIDE SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER AND STAY TUNED TO COLUMBUS WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMTION.
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 2:25 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
GAZ005-008-011-ALZ012-092030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...COR TO TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 223 PM EDT SAT JUN 9 1990 AT 220 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR AT COLUMBUS SHOWED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA AS WELL AS OVER SOUTH EAST ALABAMA STRETCHING FROM NEAR TALBOTTON TO COLUMBUS GEORGIA SOUTHWEST TO NEAR TROY ALABAMA. THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST SOUTHEAST OF ELLAVILLE GEORGIA AND JUST SOUTH OF CLAYTON ALABAMA. PERSONS IN WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA AS WELL AS PERSONS IN SOUTH EAST ALABAMA CAN EXPECT VERY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS A POSSIBLE SOME SMALL HAIL ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINFALL. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CBONTINUE TO DEVELOPE OVER THIS AREA THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.PERSONS OUT SIDE SHOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER AND STAY TUNED TO COLUMBUS WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMTION.
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 2:47 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
GAZ004-091940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 245 PM EDT SAT JUN 9 1990 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL WERE CONTINUING TO DEVELOP OVER THE NORTH TWO THIRDS OF GEORGIA AND ADJACENT AREAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN GEORGIA FROM NEAR COLUMBUS TO NEAR MILLEDGEVILLE AND IN NORTH_ CAROLINA FROM NEAR ASHEVILLE TO NEAR SHELBY. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 55 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.