Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1990, 4:26 PM EDT for Baker County, Mitchell County, Georgia. It was in force for 64 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
- Jul 2, 1990, 4:26 PM EDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1990, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Baker County, GA, Mitchell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 5:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Baker, 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
Apalachicola Mun, FL (KAQQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 2346 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1020 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCSG 022027 SVRCSG GAC007-205-022130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 426 PM EDT MON JUL 2 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA ...SOUTHEASTERN BAKER COUNTY...WEST CENTRAL MITCHELL COUNTY AT 4:25 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF NEWTON IN BAKER COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO MITCHELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA SHORTLY. 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, Jul 2, 2:10 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
FLZ003-005-006-007-GAZ011-012-022015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 210 PM EDT (110 PM CDT) MON JUL 2 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CALHOUN...JACKSON AND GULF COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA UNTIL 8 PM CDT (9PM EDT)... AT 200 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ACROSS NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST INLAND ALONG THE COAST OF TAYLOR COUNTY. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER GADSDEN COUNTY JUST NORTH OF QUINCY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST AT LESS THAN 10 MPH. CONDITIONS ACROSS NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA FAVOR MORE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN...LOCALLY STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. PERSONS ENGAGED IN OR PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES ACROSS NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHWEST GEORuGIA FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOULD STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THESE DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS. FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED. WPD...1810Z.
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 3:33 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
FLZ003-005-006-007-GAZ011-012-022130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 330 PM EDT (230 PM CDT) MON JUL 2 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA UNTIL 8 PM CDT (9 PM EDT) THIS EVENING...INCLUDING JACKSON...CALHOUN AND GULF COUNTIES... THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. AT AROUND 320 PM EDT STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN SEMINOLE COUNTY...SOUTHWESTERN LEON COUNTY...ACROSS EASTERN WAKULLA AND SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTIES...AND ACROSS SOUTHERN TAYLOR AND NORTHERN DIXIE COUNTIES. AN OBSERVER DRIVING ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 271 JUST NORTH OF SNEADS REPORTED STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL SHORTLY AFTER 3 PM EDT. INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 10 TO 15 MPH. FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED. WPD...1930Z.
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.