Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1991, 4:20 PM EDT for Barrow County, Jackson County, Georgia. It was in force for 55 min. 2 reports 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
- Apr 29, 1991, 4:20 PM EDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 1991, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barrow County, GA, Jackson County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 4:23 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Barrow, GA | |
| Apr 29, 5:00 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Jackson, 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
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 466 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAHN 292021 SVRAHN GAC013-157-292115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 420 PM EDT MON APR 29 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATHENS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...BARROW COUNTY...JACKSON COUNTY AT 420 PM EDT THE ATHENS RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF WINDER IN BARROW COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN AND NEAR THE CITIES OF WINDER AND JEFFERSON SHOULD PREPARE NOW FOR SEVERE WEATHER. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND" BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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
Local storm report, Apr 29, 3:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 305 PM EDT MON APR 29 1991 COUNTY........HALL SOURCE........GEORGIA STATE PATROL IN HALL COUNTY TIME..........APPROX 242 PM EDT LOCATION...9...JUST NORTH OF LULA TYPE STORM....TORNADO HAIL..........NONE DAMAGE........UNK AT THIS TIME INJURIES......NONE
Local storm report, Apr 29, 3:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 320 PM EDT MON APR 29 1991 COUNTY...... FULTON COUNTY GEORGIA SOURCE...... SKYWARN SPOTTER TIME........ 313 PM EDT LOCATION.... COLLEGE PARK ABOUT 2E MILES INSIDE I-285 TYPE STORM.. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL........ NICKLE-SIZED DAMAGE...... NONE
Local storm report, Apr 29, 3:21 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 321 PM EDT MON APR 29 1991 COUNTY...... COBB COUNTY GEORGIA SOURCE...... COBB COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY TIME........ 130 PM EDT LOCATION...I. AROUND SMYRNA TYPE STORM.. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL........ NONE DAMAGE...... SCATTERED TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES DOWN
Local storm report, Apr 29, 3:24 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 324 PM EDT MON APR 29 1991 COUNTY...... PAULDING COUNTY GEORGIA SOURCE...... COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT TIME........ 1238 PM EDT LOCATION.... NEAR DANLLAS TYPE STORM.. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL........ DIME-SIZED DAMAGE...... NONE REPORTED
Special weather statement, Apr 29, 3:34 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
GAZ005-ALZ012-292145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 336 PM EDT MON APR 29 1991 AT 335 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER AUBURN AND OPELIKA ALABAMA. THE AREA OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL. THIS ACTIVITY IS OCCURRING IN A dTORNADO WATCH AREA SO PEOPLE IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR SEVERE WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 29, 4:20 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-291300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 420 PM EDT MON APR 29 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 238 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM EDT FOR CRAWFORD..MONROE..JONES..PUTNAM AND JASPER COUNTIES... AT 415 PM WEATHER RADAR IN MACON SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM FORSYTH GEORGIA NORTH TO NEAR CONYERS GEORGIA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO JASPER COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS..SMALL HAIL..LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS MOVE INDOORS TO A SAFE PLACE UNTIL THEY PASS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THIS WEATHER EVENT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 44 min |
| Apr 28, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lincoln | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 9:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 35 min |
| Apr 29, 11:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Paulding | 65 min |
| Apr 29, 11:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 53 min |
| Apr 29, 12:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 69 min |
| Apr 29, 12:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb | 41 min |
| Apr 29, 12:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Douglas, Paulding | 53 min |
| Apr 29, 12:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 44 min |
| Apr 29, 12:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb | 47 min |
| Apr 29, 1:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, Union | 64 min |
| Apr 29, 1:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dawson | 64 min |
| Apr 29, 1:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Douglas | 44 min |
| Apr 29, 1:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Heard | 41 min |
| Apr 29, 1:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 52 min |
| Apr 29, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton | 57 min |
| Apr 29, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 57 min |
| Apr 29, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 57 min |
| Apr 29, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 56 min |
| Apr 29, 2:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hall, Lumpkin, White | 69 min |
| Apr 29, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 29 min |
| Apr 29, 2:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Troup | 54 min |
| Apr 29, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fulton | 41 min |
| Apr 29, 2:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks, Habersham, Hall | 67 min |
| Apr 29, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 58 min |
| Apr 29, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rabun | 57 min |
| Apr 29, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb | 50 min |
| Apr 29, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 26 min |
| Apr 29, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Elbert, Hart | 45 min |
| Apr 29, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 27 min |
| Apr 29, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts | 40 min |
| Apr 29, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Oconee, Walton | 63 min |
| Apr 29, 4:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts | 61 min |
| Apr 29, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lincoln, Wilkes | 61 min |
| Apr 29, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 37 min |
| Apr 29, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Franklin | 47 min |
| Apr 29, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Madison, Oglethorpe | 69 min |
| Apr 29, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lincoln | 42 min |
| Apr 29, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Warren | 69 min |
| Apr 29, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | McDuffie | 69 min |
| Apr 29, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Burke, Jenkins | 41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.