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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 10, 1990Houston County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 1990, 7:17 PM EDT for Houston County, Georgia. It was in force for 58 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: Apr 10, 1990, 7:17 PM EDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 1990, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Houston 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
Apr 10, 7:33 PM EDT	Tornado F1	Houston, 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 169 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMCN 102318
SVRMCN
GAC153-110015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
717 PM EDT TUE APR 10 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
          ...HOUSTON
 
AT 715 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF PERRY
MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE PERRY AREA
WITHIN A FEW MINUTES.
 
 
 
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...
PREFEdRABLY 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, Apr 10, 5:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 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, 1 hour 24 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, 1 hour 11 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, 1 hour 8 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, 1 hour 2 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, 49 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, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	49 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, 7:26 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.