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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 1990, 10:21 AM EST for Crawford County, Peach County, Georgia. It was in force for 54 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
- Feb 22, 1990, 10:21 AM EST (15:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 1990, 11:15 AM EST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, GA, Peach 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 22, 10:50 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Peach, 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, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 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 KMCN 221522
SVRMCN
GAC079-225-221615-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
1021 AM EST THU FEB 22 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
...CRAWFORD...PEACH
AT 1020 AM WEATHER RADAR IN MACON INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE
JUST WEST OF ROBERTA AND FORT VALLEY MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THEY WILL
BE MOVING ACROSS PEACH AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES WITHIN THE NEXT FEW
MINUTES.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.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, Feb 22, 6:30 AM EST, 3 hours 51 minutes before
ALZ012-GAZ005-221230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 625 AM EST THU FEB 22 1990 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR RUSSELL COUNTY AND THE SURROUNDING COUNTIES OF EAST ALABAMA TODAY... OVERNIGHT RAINFALL IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA HAS BEEN LIGHT. COLUMBUS RADAR AT 620 AM EST INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN COVERING MOST OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA. THERE WERE ALSO A FEW HEAVY SHOWERS IN TKHE LAKE MARTIN AREA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. PLEASE CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Special weather statement, Feb 22, 9:31 AM EST, 50 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-221600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 930 AM EST THU FEB 22 1990 AT 930 AM WEATHER RADAR IN MACON SHOWED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IN WEST AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THEY WILL BEGIN MOVING INTO CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA BETWEEN 10 AND 11 AM THIS MORNING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AS THEY MOVE INTO THE CENTRAL GEORGIA AROEA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 9:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 52 min |
| Feb 22, 10:01 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Meriwether | 44 min |
| Feb 22, 10:15 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta | 30 min |
| Feb 22, 10:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette, Fulton | 46 min |
| Feb 22, 10:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 46 min |
| Feb 22, 10:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Houston | 45 min |
| Feb 22, 10:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton | 43 min |
| Feb 22, 10:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 43 min |
| Feb 22, 11:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Hall, Lumpkin | 55 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.