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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 348, NWS Atlanta, GA

September 10, 1990Jones County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1990, 3:06 PM EDT for Jones County, Georgia. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 10, 1990, 3:06 PM EDT (19:06 UTC)
Expired
Sep 10, 1990, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Jones 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 106 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1990-09-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1990-09-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 10, 1:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFannin46 min
Sep 10, 4:42 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFulton48 min
Sep 10, 2:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTwiggs46 min
Sep 10, 3:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBibb, Houston62 min
Sep 10, 5:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee34 min
Sep 10, 5:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFulton34 min
Sep 10, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb38 min
Sep 10, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton27 min
Sep 10, 6:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCColumbia, Richmond47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.