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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 27, 1991Emanuel County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1991, 9:39 PM EDT for Emanuel County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 27, 1991, 9:39 PM EDT (01:39 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 1991, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Emanuel County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 177 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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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, 6:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 57 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, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 27, 8:50 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 27, 8:58 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 27, 9:37 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 27, 9:39 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 27, 8:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	51 min
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, 9:41 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, 1991 Every 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.