Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 1990, 7:38 PM EDT for Jasper County, Putnam County, Georgia. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 10, 1990, 7:38 PM EDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 1990, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jasper County, GA, Putnam 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMCN 102340
SVRMCN
GAC079-207-159-237-110045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
738 PM EDT TUE APR 10 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
...CRAWFORD...MONROE
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
...JASPER...PUTNAM
AT 735 PM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTH OF
ATHENS TO JUST WEST OF FORSYTH AND ROBERTA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35
MPH.
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
Local storm report, Apr 10, 6:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 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 29 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 23 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, 1 hour 10 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.
Special weather statement, Apr 10, 7:20 PM EDT, 18 minutes before
GAZ001-003-110005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 620 PM EDT MON APR 10 1990 A LARGE PORTION OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA HAS BEEN CLEARED FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 120. SEVERE STORMS ARE NO LONGER A THREAT FOR THE FOLLOWING AREA.... THAT PART OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA TO THE WEST AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM LAGRANGE TO ATLANTA TO BLUE RIDGE. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE CLEARED AREA... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA BARTOW CARROLL CATOOSA CHATTOOGA CHEROKEE CLAYTON COBB COWETA DADE DAWSON DEKALB DOUGLAS FANNIN FAYETTE FLOYD FULTON GILMER GORDON HARALSjON HEARD MURRAY PAULDING PICKENS POLK WALKER WHITFIELD IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA TROUP THE TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR POINTS FARTHER EAST AND SOUTH OF THESE COUNTIES.
Local storm report, Apr 10, 7:31 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
725 PM EDT TUE APR 10 1990
723 PM EDT.....DIME SIZE HAIL AT POLICE OFFICE IN LITHONIA IN DEKALB
COUNTY. SOME REPORTS OF FLOODING IN HOMES IN LITH~ONIA. TIME OF
HAIL OCCURRENCE WAS APPROXIMATELY 658 PM EDT.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, 7:17 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 |
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.