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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 16, 1990, 6:31 PM EST for Rockdale County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 1990, 6:31 PM EST (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1990, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rockdale 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 663 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 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 KATL 162334
TORATL
GAC247-170000-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
631 PM EST FRI MAR 16 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
...ROCKDALE
A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND IN ROCKDALE COUNTY. DAMAGE
WAS REPORTED BY ROCKDAL COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 911.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 7:25 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Polk | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 7:52 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, Murray, Pickens | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 7:52 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 7:52 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Haralson | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 7:52 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 10:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Gordon, Pickens, Polk | 6 hr |
| Mar 16, 10:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Murray | 6 hr |
| Mar 16, 10:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 6 hr |
| Mar 16, 10:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Haralson | 6 hr |
| Mar 16, 4:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Haralson, Polk | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 4:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Gordon, Pickens | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 4:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Fannin, Murray | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 4:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 4:47 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 4 hr |
| Mar 16, 4:47 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 4 hr |
| Mar 16, 5:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 50 min |
| Mar 16, 6:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Newton, Walton | 59 min |
| Mar 16, 6:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas, Fulton | 4 hr |
| Mar 16, 6:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 4 hr |
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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.