Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 314, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 1990, 5:04 PM EDT for Cherokee County, Pickens County, Georgia. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 1990, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 1990, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cherokee County, GA, Pickens 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 378 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 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 KATL 222108 SVRATL GAC057-227-222200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 504 PM EDT WED AUG 22 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...CHEROKEE COUNTY...PICKENS COUNTY AT 500 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SOUTH OF JASPER IN PICKENS COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 12 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, Aug 22, 12:35 PM EDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-211900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 1235 PM EDT WED AUG 22 1990 AT 1230 PM RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL GEORGIA FROM COLUMBUS TO ROBERTA IN CRAWFORD COUNTY THROUGH THE BIBB TO TWIGGS TO WILKINSON COUNTIES AREA AND ON EAST TO AUGUSTA. ANOTHER LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA FROM OGLETHORPE IN MACON COUNTY TO DUBLIN TO SYLVANIA AND SOUTH TO SAVANNAH TO ALMA AND BACK TO NEAR ALBANY. THE STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE 15 MILES WEST OF ROBERTA IN CRAWFORD COUNTY AND 10 MILES NORTH OF FITZGERALD IN BEN HILL COUNTY. NEARLY ALL THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH POSSIBLE FLOODING OF LOW AREAS AND SOME STREET FLOODING.
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 1:06 PM EDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
GAZ005-ALZ012 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 105 PM EDT WED AUG 22 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN WEST GEORGIA AND EAST ALABAMA... AT 100 PM EDT COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR WARM SPRINGS GEORGIA SOUTHWEST TO PHENIX CITY...AUBURN AND TUSKEGEE ALABAMA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST ABOUT 12 MPH. RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA... INCLUDING THE COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN AREA...SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS FOR THREATENING WEATHER. THE LARGER STORMS WILL LIKELY CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL.
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 1:19 PM EDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
GAZ005-ALZ012-221930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION FOR HEADING ONLY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 105 PM EDT WED AUG 22 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN WEST GEORGIA AND EAST ALABAMA... AT 100 PM EDT COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR WARM SPRINGS GEORGIA SOUTHWEST TO PHENIX CITY...AUBURN AND TUSKEGEE ALABAMA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST ABOUT 12 MPH. RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA... INCLUDING THE COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN AREA...SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS FOR THREATENING WEATHER. THE LARGER STORMS WILL LIKELY CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL.
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 3:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
GAZ008-011-222100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 310 PM EDT WED AUG 22 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING OVER SOUTHWEST GEORGIA... AT 305 PM EDT COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED LARGE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR CUTHBERT...SHELLMAN AND DAWSON GEORGIA...ALSO JUST SOUTHEAST OF FORT GAINES. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER MUCH OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...AND MAY EVENTUALLY MOVE INTO THE ALBANY AREA. RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT SOUTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR FOR THREATENING WEATHER. THE LARGER STORMS WILL LIKELY CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLxE SMALL HAIL.
Local storm report, Aug 22, 4:09 PM EDT, 55 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 407 PM EDT WED AUG 22 1990 COUNTY........ OGLETHORPE SOURCE........ RAYLE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION (POWER COMPANY) TIME.......... APPROXIMATLY 1230 AM EDT WED AUG 22 1990 LOCATION...... COUNTYWIDE TYPE STORM.... THUNDERSTORM HAIL.......... UNK DAMAGE........ TREES INTO POWER LINES...POWER OUTAGES INJURIES...... NONE KNOWN
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 4:56 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
GAZ003-222200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 500 PM EDT WED AUG 22 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA... AT 455 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN PICKENS COUNTY NEAR JASPER...AND IN COWETA COUNTY NORTHWEST OF NEWNAN. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOST LIKELY DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHWEST GEORGIA DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE STRONGEST STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL. PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Franklin, Stephens | 59 min |
| Aug 21, 9:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hart | 55 min |
| Aug 22, 12:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 60 min |
| Aug 22, 12:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Columbia | 42 min |
| Aug 22, 8:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 60 min |
| Aug 22, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 28 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.