Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1991, 8:09 PM EDT for Washington County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 1991, 8:09 PM EDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1991, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 286 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 720 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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, Apr 27, 5:28 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
GAZ001-003-272300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
527 PM EDT SAT APR 27 1991
...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING NORTHWEST GEORGIA...
A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS INTENSIFYING OVER NORTHEAST ALABAMA LATE
THIS AFTERNOON. AT 515 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A NEARLY SOLID LINE OF
STORMS DEVELOPING FROM NEAR SCOTTSBORO SOUTH THROUGH ANNISTON TO
TALLADEGA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST NEAR 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO
THE EXTREME WEST GEORGIA COUNTIES OF WALKER...CHATTOOGA...FLOYD...
POLK...HARALSON...AND CARROLL...WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR.
THERE WERE NUMEROUS REPORTS OF STORM DAMAGE OVER CENTRAL ALABAMA AS
THESE STORMS PASSED EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON.
PERSONS IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING
WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. BE READY TO TAKE SAFETY
PRECAUTIONS IF ADVERSE WEATHER THREATENS.Special weather statement, Apr 27, 5:48 PM EDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
GAZ005-008-ALZ012-272345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 546 PM EDT SAT APR 27 1991 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA...AND FOR MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...UNTIL 10 PM EDT... AT 540 PM EDT COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR ALEXANDER CITY AND LAFAYETTE ALABAMA NORTH INTO THE ANNISTON ALABAMA AND CARROLLTON GEORGIA AREAS. ELSEWHERE THERE WERE A FEW ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWERS NEAR LANETT AND THOMASTON GEORGIA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST ABOUT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA AND EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. BE READY TO TAKE SAFE SHELTER IF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP OR MOVE INTO YOUR AREA.
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 5:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
GAZ004-280100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 556 PM EDT SAT APR 27 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT FOR THE FOLOWING NORTHEAST GEORGIA COUNTIES...BARROW...CLARKE...GREENE... HALL..JACKSON...MORGAN...NEWTON...OCONEE...OGLETHORPE AND WALTON... AT 550 PM EDT THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO NORTHWEST GOERGIA FROM NORTHEAST ALABAMA. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE HAD PAST HISTORY OF SEVERE WEATHER. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. AT THIS PRESENT MOVEMENT THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH THE NORTHEAST GEORGIA COUNTIES AROUND 800 PM EDT. PERSONS THROUGHOUT NORTHEAST GEORG SHOULD KEEP ALERT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS EVENING FOR APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY RAPIDLY.
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 6:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
GAZ006-280045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 639 PM EDT SAT APR 27 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT FOR BIBB... CRAWFORD...JONES...JASPER...MACON...MONROE...PUTNAM AND TAYLOR COUNTIES OF THE CENTRAL GEORGIA AREA... AT 635 PM RADARS LOCATED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. ANOTHER VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED BY RADAR OVER TELFAIR COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 2O MPH. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO...OR DEVELOP... OVER THE WATCH AREA BETWEEN NOW AND 1000 PM. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MONITOR LOCAL WEATHER REPORTS DURING THE REST OF THE EARLY NIGHT-TIME HOURS.
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 7:36 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 9:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Washington | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 9:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Warren | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 9:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 51 min |
| Apr 27, 9:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 34 min |
| Apr 28, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Gordon | 58 min |
| Apr 28, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 69 min |
| Apr 28, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Pickens | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 54 min |
| Apr 28, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Fulton | 54 min |
| Apr 28, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 55 min |
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.