Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 10, 1990, 6:51 AM EST for Elbert County, Hart County, Georgia. It was in force for 2 hr. 2 reports 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
- Feb 10, 1990, 6:51 AM EST (11:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 1990, 9:00 AM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Elbert County, GA, Hart 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 7:30 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Hart, GA | |
| Feb 10, 7:45 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Elbert, 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 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 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 101152
SVRAHN
GAC105-133-147-221-265-101400-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
651 AM EST SAT FEB 10 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATHENS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
...ELBERT...GREENE...HART...OGLETHORPE...TALIAFERRO
LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING FROM THE WEST AT 60 MILES AN
HOUR....DAMAGING WINDS EXPECTED..
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
nRAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9, 8:17 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 118 min |
| Feb 10, 3:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 53 min |
| Feb 10, 3:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 50 min |
| Feb 10, 4:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 65 min |
| Feb 10, 4:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 65 min |
| Feb 10, 4:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 65 min |
| Feb 10, 5:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fulton | 57 min |
| Feb 10, 5:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Paulding | 57 min |
| Feb 10, 5:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Fulton | 67 min |
| Feb 10, 5:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 67 min |
| Feb 10, 5:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 67 min |
| Feb 10, 5:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Gwinnett | 65 min |
| Feb 10, 5:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Henry | 65 min |
| Feb 10, 5:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike, Spalding | 65 min |
| Feb 10, 5:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 65 min |
| Feb 10, 6:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 69 min |
| Feb 10, 6:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Lamar | 46 min |
| Feb 10, 6:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Franklin, Madison, Stephens | 116 min |
| Feb 10, 6:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Clarke, Hall, Jackson, Oconee, Walton | 116 min |
| Feb 10, 6:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Newton | 116 min |
| Feb 10, 6:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Monroe | 40 min |
| Feb 10, 6:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford | 40 min |
| Feb 10, 6:44 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Peach | 31 min |
| Feb 10, 6:44 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones, Putnam | 31 min |
| Feb 10, 6:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro | 2 hr |
| Feb 10, 6:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dooly, Houston, Pulaski | 36 min |
| Feb 10, 6:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 36 min |
| Feb 10, 7:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens, Wilcox | 42 min |
| Feb 10, 7:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Ben Hill, Turner | 42 min |
| Feb 10, 7:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Irwin | 53 min |
| Feb 10, 7:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Burke, Jefferson, Richmond | 65 min |
| Feb 10, 7:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Columbia, McDuffie | 65 min |
| Feb 10, 8:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair, Treutlen, Wheeler | 50 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.