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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 10, 1990Meriwether County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 1990, 6:41 PM EDT for Meriwether County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 10, 1990, 6:41 PM EDT (22:41 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 1990, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Meriwether 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 164 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 674 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 268 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KATL 102242
SVRATL
GAC199-102330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
641 PM EDT TUE APR 10 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
          ...MERIWETHER
 
AT 643 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF
LAGRANGE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. TAKE
COVER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
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
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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, Apr 10, 5:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

GAZ002-004-102225-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
525 PM EDT TUE APR 10 1990

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 120 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT
FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED ACROSS NORTHWEST GEORGIA
FROM NEAR CARROLLTON TO ELLIJAY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE
EAST 45 MPH.

ELSEWHERE...A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS FROM
EASTERN ALABAMA ACROSS NORTHWEST GEORGIA INTO EXTREME SOUTHEAST
TENNESSEE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST 45 MPH.

Local storm report, Apr 10, 5:53 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
554 PM EDT TUE APR 10 1990

550 PM EDT.....DOUGLASS COUNTY FIRE DEPT REPORTS MARBLE TO DIME
     SIZE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.

552 PM EDT...  SOUTH COBB COUNTY...PEA SIZE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS.

Local storm report, Apr 10, 6:06 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS, GA
603 PM EDT TUE APR 10 1990

COUNTY......  WEBSTER
SOURCE......  HAM RADIO SPOTTERS
TIME........  600PM EDT
LOCATION....  JUST NORTH OF RICHLAND
TYPE STORM..  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
DAMAGE/TREES...  TREES DOWN ACROSS HIGHWAY 520
INJURIES....  UNK
DEATHS......  NONE
COSTS.......  UNK
INJURIES.... [
DEATHS......
COST........

Local storm report, Apr 10, 6:09 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
609 PM EDT TUE APR 10 1990

605 PM EDT.....FULTON COUNTY AIRPORT NEAR SIX FLAGS REPORTS PEA SIZE
     HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS OF ABOUT 45 MPH.

Local storm report, Apr 10, 6:15 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
612 PM EDT TUE APR 10 1990

610 PM EDT.....HAIL NEAR NICKEL SIZE AT CASCADE AND CABLETON ROADS
     IN WEST ATLANTA.

613 PM EDT...NWS...ATLANTA AIRPORT REPORTS QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND WIND
    GUSTS TO 43 MPH.

Special weather statement, Apr 10, 6:28 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

GAZ002-004-102225-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
625 PM EDT TUE APR 10 1990

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 120 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT
FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA
FROM LAGRANGE TO THE ATLANTA AREA AND TO EAST OF BLAIRSVILLE.
THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN THE ATLANTA AREA WHERE HAIL THE
SIZE OF QUARTERS WAS REPORTED ALONG WITH WIND G&USTS TO 43 MPH.

THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING TO THE EAST 45 MPH.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson, Polk	52 min
Apr 10, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gordon	41 min
Apr 10, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Floyd	42 min
Apr 10, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Paulding	42 min
Apr 10, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Haralson	54 min
Apr 10, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gilmer	47 min
Apr 10, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Douglas, Paulding	66 min
Apr 10, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	58 min
Apr 10, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, DeKalb	55 min
Apr 10, 6:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	DeKalb	30 min
Apr 10, 6:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett, Henry, Rockdale	57 min
Apr 10, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Henry	35 min
Apr 10, 7:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Clarke, Oconee, Oglethorpe	69 min
Apr 10, 7:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Morgan, Newton, Walton	69 min
Apr 10, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston	58 min
Apr 10, 7:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Houston	64 min
Apr 10, 7:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Monroe	67 min
Apr 10, 7:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Putnam	67 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.