Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 262, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1990, 3:05 PM EDT for Butts County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 1990, 3:05 PM EDT (19:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1990, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butts 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 533 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 081906 SVRATL GAC035-081945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 305 PM EDT WED AUG 8 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...BUTTS COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED ON RADAR IN BUTTS COUNTY JUST SOUTHWEST OF JACKSON. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. 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. MOTORI=STS 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 8, 1:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
GAZ004-081845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 145 PM EDT WED AUG 8 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MORGAN...GREENE...AND TALIAFERRO COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 8 PM EDT... AT 1:00 PM EDT A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS INDICATED OVER MADISON GEORGIA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 12 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN MORGAN COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR THE NEXT HOUR AS THIS STORM MOVES THROUGH THEIR AREA. VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 1:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
GAZ004-081845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 145 PM EDT WED AUG 8 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MORGAN...GREENE...AND TALIAFERRO COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 8 PM EDT... AT 1:45 PM EDT A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS INDICATED OVER MADISON GEORGIA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 12 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN MORGAN COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR THE NEXT HOUR AS THIS STORM MOVES THROUGH THEIR AREA. VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 1:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
GAZ001-003-081900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 155 PM EDT TUE AUG 08 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH GEORGIA... AT 145 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR ATLANTA...ROME...JAPSER IN PICKENS COUNTY...FAYETTEVILLE...AND WOODBURY IN MERIWETHER COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF ALL STORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. EVEN THOUGH NORTH GEORGIA IS NOT CURRENTLY UNDER A SEVERE WEATHER WATCH... PERSONS SHOULD STILL REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTIONS IF NECESSARY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL TV AND RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Local storm report, Aug 8, 2:14 PM EDT, 51 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 212PM EDT WED AUG 8, 1990 COUNTY........ MORGAN SOURCE........ COOP OBS TIME..........1404 EDT LOCATION...... 6 EAST OF GODFREY ...SOUTHERN MORGAN COUNTY... TYPE STORM.... THUNDERSTORM ...WINDS EST 50 MPH... HAIL.......... MARBLE SIZE DAMAGE........ NONE KNOWN INJURIES...... NONE KNOWN
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 3:05 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
GAZ004-082000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 300 PM EDT WED AUG 8 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MORGAN...GREENE...AND TALIAFERRO COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 8 PM EDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MORGAN COUNTY OF NORTHEREAST GEORGIA HAS EXPIRED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM EDT FOR GREENE COUNTY OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. AT 300 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE ;THUNDERSTORM IN THE SOUTHERN END OF GREENE COUNTY...ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF UNION POINT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 12 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 63 min |
| Aug 8, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Henry, Spalding | 48 min |
| Aug 8, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 61 min |
| Aug 8, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 67 min |
| Aug 8, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 54 min |
| Aug 8, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 63 min |
| Aug 8, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 50 min |
| Aug 8, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Treutlen | 57 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.