Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 258, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1990, 5:54 PM EDT for White County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 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
- Aug 5, 1990, 5:54 PM EDT (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1990, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County White 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 6:20 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | White, 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 792 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 890 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 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 KAHN 052156 SVRAHN GAC311-052245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 554 PM EDT SUN AUG 5 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATHENS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...WHITE COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR OVER THE WEST SECTION OF WHITE COUNTY AND WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. 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
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 3:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
GAZ001-003-052100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 305 PM EDT SUN AUG 05 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA... THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA IN THE AFTERNOON HEAT. AT 300 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE STRONGEST STORMS JUST NORTH OF CAROLLTON AND NEAR MENLO IN CHATTOGA COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 10 MPH. THESE STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. BECAUSE THESE STORMS ARE SLOW-MOVERS FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND ROADWAYS ARE POSSIBLE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS NORTH GE,ORGIA FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 3:31 PM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-052100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 332 PM EDT SUN AUG 5 1990 ...RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS WERE ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA... AT 330 PM WEATHER RADAR IN MACON SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN MANY COUNTIES OF CENTRAL GEORGIA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST BETWEEN 5 AND 10 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA. THEY WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY RAIN. FEW MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL. PEOPLE ENJOYING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SHOULD GO INSIDE IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH. BOATERS ON AREA LAKES...GOLFERS...AND OTHERS IN OPEN AREAS SHOULD ALSO REMEMBER LINGHTNING SAFETY RULES.
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 3:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
GAZ002-004-052200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 400 PM EDT SUN AUG 5 1990 AFTERNOON HEAT COMBINED WITH CONSIDERABLE MOISTURE WILL PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS AT RANDOM ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. PEOPLE ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND ROADWAYS. FOR THOSE BOATING AND PARTICIPATING IN OTHER WATER ACTIVITIES BE ESPECIALLY WATCHFUL FOR THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING YOUR AREA AND ALLOW ADEQUATE TIME TO REACH A PLACE OF SAFETY OUT AND OFF THE WATE_R.
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 4:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-052100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 437 PM EDT SUN AUG 5 1990 AT 430 PM RADAR SHOWED TWO AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN. TWO LARGE STORMS WERE IN AN AREA FROM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF GORDON IN WILKINSON COUNTY TO 7 MILES NORTH OF JEFFERSONVILLE IN TWIGGS COUNTY. BOTH WERE MOVING EAST 15 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER GROUP OF THUNDERSTORMS RANGED FROM 8 MILES SOUTH OF MONTEZUMA IN MACON COUNTY TO VIENNA IN DOOLY COUNTY TO CORDELE IN CRISP COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST 10 MILES AN HOUR. EACH OF THE STORMS SEEN BY RADAR ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WITH WIND GUSTS NEAR 40 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE WHO ARE OUTDOORS SHOULD GO INSIDE IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH. BOATERS ON AREA LAKES...GOLFERS...AND OTHERS IN OPEN AREAS REMEMBER LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS ARE A VERY CONSIDERABLE THREAT TO YOUR SAFETY.
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 4:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
GAZ005-008-006-052245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 437 PM EDT SUN AUG 5 1990 AT 430 PM EDT COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR WAS SHOWING A FEW VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTHEAST AND NORTH OF BLAKELY..5 MILES NORTH OF SHELLMAN AND ALSO 5 MILES NORTH OF BENOVOLENCE..JUST NORTH OF AMERICUS AND EAST OF MONTEZUMA. ALL OF THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. PERSONS NEAR THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WIND..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING AND BE READY TO TAKE PROTECTIVE ACTION WHEN THESE STORMS COME NEAR YOU. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 5:22 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
GAZ001-003-060000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 522 PM EDT SUN AUG 05 1990 AT 520 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA. SOME OF THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE JUST SOUTH OF NEWNAN AND IN BARTOW COUNTY WEST OF ATCO. THE THUNDER- STORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. BECAUSE THESE STORMS ARE SLOW-MOVERS FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND ROADWAYS ARE POSSIBLE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 46 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.