Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 30, 1991, 12:42 PM EST for Turner County, Georgia. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 30, 1991, 12:42 PM EST (17:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 30, 1991, 1:45 PM EST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Turner County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jan 30, 7:44 AM EST, 4 hours 58 minutes before
GAZ005-ALZ012-301345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 643 AM CST WED JAN 30 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 6 FOR MOST OF SOUTHERN ALABAMA INCLUDING RUSSELL AND BARBOUR COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 7AM CST. AT 635 AM CST COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR WAS SHOWING LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ALL ACROSS EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 8 MILES WEST OF COLUMBUS WITH THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED SOUTHWEST TO NORTH OF UNION SPRINGS. ALSO A LONE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF HURTSBORO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS ACROSS EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA ..INCLUDING THE COLUMBUS/PHENIX CITY AREA..SHOULD BE READY TO SEEK PROTECTIVE SHELTER WHEN THESE STORMS COME NEAR. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO NEAR 50 MILES AN HOUR. FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS ARE BECOMING A PROBLEM IN COLUMBUS AND PHENIX CITY. STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE ALSO NEAR BANKFULL. CAUTION IS ADVISED TO ALL WHO LIVE IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS TO KEEP A CLOSE WATCH ON POSSIBLE FLOODING. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER NEWS MEYDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jan 30, 10:43 AM EST, 1 hour 59 minutes before
GAZ005-008-301700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 1040 AM CST WED JAN 30 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING OVER WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA... AT 1035 AM EST RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS IN AN AREA FROM NEAR BUENA VISTA GEORGIA SOUTHWEST TO FORT GAINES GEORGIA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MPH. PEOPLE IN WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...NEAR AND EAST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. IN ADDITION TO STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... WATCH FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND OTHER POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMExNTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jan 30, 10:44 AM EST, 1 hour 58 minutes before
GAZ005-008-301700-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR TIME IN HEADING ONLY.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
1040 AM EST WED JAN 30 1991
...THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING OVER WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...
AT 1035 AM EST RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS IN AN
AREA FROM NEAR BUENA VISTA GEORGIA SOUTHWEST TO FORT GAINES GEORGIA.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MPH.
PEOPLE IN WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...NEAR AND EAST OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER THE NEXT HOUR OR
TWO. IN ADDITION TO STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...
WATCH FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND OTHER POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR{ OTHER LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER
STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 30, 11:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 2 hr |
| Jan 30, 11:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bibb, Houston, Peach | 2 hr |
| Jan 30, 11:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Crawford | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991
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.