Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1990, 8:24 PM EDT for Jenkins County, Screven County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1990, 8:24 PM EDT (00:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1990, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jenkins County, GA, Screven 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 2930 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 961 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 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 KAGS 110029 COR SVRAGS GAC165-251-110115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...COUNTIES... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA 824 PM EDT SUN JUN 10 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...EASTERN JENKINS COUNTY...WESTERN SCREVEN COUNTY AT 823 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN JENKINS COUNTY GEORGIA JUST SOUTHEAST OF MILLEN. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST 25 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO SCREVEN COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 10, 4:44 PM EDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
GAZ004-102130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTION FOR TIME... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 435 PM EDT SAT JUN 9 1990 SEVERE THUNERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 437 IS EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EASTERN GEORGIA...WHICH INCLUDES ONE COUNTY OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...ELBERT COUNTY UNTIL 1000PM EDT TONIGHT. AT 425 PM EDT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL WERE INDICATED ACROSS CENTRAL GEOEGIA INTO WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MAINLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LAURENS SOUTH CAROLINA TO MADISON TO GRIFFIN GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN SOUTH CAROLINA JUST SOUTHEAST OF GREENWOOD AND 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ORANGEBURG. MOVEMENT SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. ALTHOUGH MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOT OCCURRING IN ELBERT COUNTY...A SHOWER WAS OVER HARTWELL MOVING TOWARD ELBERT COUNTY AND RAPID DEVELOPMENT COULD OCCUR IN THE NEXT HOUR.
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
GAZ004-102230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 530 PM EDT SUN JUN 10 1990 SEVERE THUNERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 437 IS EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EASTERN GEORGIA...WHICH INCLUDES ONE COUNTY OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...ELBERT COUNTY UNTIL 1000PM EDT TONIGHT. AT 525 PM EDT WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL GEORGIA AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER WESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MAINLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LAURENS TO ANDERSON SOUTH CAROLINA TO GRIFFIN GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL WERE LOCATED ON THE SOUTHERN END OF LAKE THURMOND AND 10 MILES AND 20 MILES EAST OF AIKEN SOUTH CAROLINA. MOVEMENT SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. ALTHOUGH NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN ELBERT COUNTY THIS HOUR...THERE IS STILL POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN THAT AREA DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 6:19 PM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
GAZ004-102300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
618 PM EDT SUN JUN 10 1990
...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER TELIAFERRO COUNTY...
AT 615 PM EDT...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED OVER NORTHERN
TELIAFERRO COUNTY MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUST...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...
HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL AS IT MOVES ACROSS TELIAFERRO COUNTY.
PEOPLE IN TELI+AFERRO COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFTY AT THE FIRST SIGN OF APPROACHING BAD WEATHER...STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS...AVOID USING TELEPHONES AND ELECTRICAL APPLAINCES UNTIL THIS
STORM HAS PASSED.
NEXT FEW HOURS.Special weather statement, Jun 10, 6:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
GAZ004-102300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
618 PM EDT SUN JUN 10 1990
...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER TALIAFERRO COUNTY...
AT 615 PM EDT...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED OVER NORTHERN
TALIAFERRO COUNTY MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUST...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...
HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL AS IT MOVES ACROSS TALIAFERRO COUNTY.
PEOPLE IN ,TALIAFERRO COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFTY AT THE FIRST SIGN OF APPROACHING BAD WEATHER...STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS...AVOID USING TELEPHONES AND ELECTRICAL APPLAINCES UNTIL THIS
STORM HAS PASSED.Special weather statement, Jun 10, 6:24 PM EDT, 2 hours before
GAZ004-102300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ...TEXT CORRECTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
618 PM EDT SUN JUN 10 1990
...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER TALIAFERRO COUNTY...
AT 615 PM EDT...A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED OVER NORTHERN
TALIAFERRO COUNTY MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUST...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...
HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AS IT MOVES ACROSS TALI3AFERRO COUNTY.
PEOPLE IN TALIAFERRO COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFTY AT THE FIRST SIGN OF APPROACHING BAD WEATHER...STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS...AVOID USING TELEPHONES AND ELECTRICAL APPLAINCES UNTIL THIS
STORM HAS PASSED.Special weather statement, Jun 10, 6:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
GAZ004-102330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 630 PM EDT SUN JUN 10 1990 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 437 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ELBERT COUNTY OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA. AT 625 PM EDT WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL GEORGIA AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER WESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MAINLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LAURENS SOUTH CAROLINA TO HARTWELL TO COLUMBUS GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL WERE LOCATED 12 MILES GSOUTH OF WASHINGTON...OVER AUGUSTA GEORGIA AND 20 MILES SOUTH OF COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLINA. MOVEMENT SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
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.