Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1991, 7:21 PM EDT for Glascock County, Warren County, Georgia. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 1991, 7:21 PM EDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 1991, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Glascock County, GA, Warren County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
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 29, 5:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
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LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 610 PM EDT MON APR 29 1991 COUNTY........HART SOURCE........HART COUNTY E.M.S. TIME..........APPROX 430 PM EDT LOCATION......HARTWELL HOSPITAL TYPE STORM....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL..........PENNY SIZE HAIL DAMAGE........UNKNOWN INJURIES......NONE
Special weather statement, Apr 29, 6:43 PM EDT, 38 minutes before
GAZ005-ALZ012-GAZ006-292345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 644 PM EDT MON APR 29 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 241 CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 11 PM EDT... AT 640 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS COVERING MOST OF WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA. MOST OF THE LARGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN AN AREA FROM NEAR MONTEZUMA GEORGIA SOUTHWEST TO PLAINS...PRESTON AND CUTHBERT...ALSO IN ALABAMA BETWEEN SEALE AND CRAWFORD. MOVEMENT WAS GENERALLY EAST ABOUT 30 MPH. ALTHOUGH THE THUNDERSTORMS APPEAR TO HAVE DECREASED SOME DURING THE PAST HOUR...CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA UNTIL 11 PM EDT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO MONITOR YOUR LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS AND BE READY TO TAKE SAFE SHELTER IF NECESSARY. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATH ER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Special weather statement, Apr 29, 6:44 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
GAZ006-008-009-300000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 645 PM EDT MON APR 29 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 241 CONTINUES UNTIL 11 PM FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL GEORGIA FROM EASTMAN AND HAWKINSVILLE NORTHWARD... AT 640 PM EDT RADAR IN MACON SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL GEORGIA FROM EATONTON AND MONTICELLO SOUTH TO MACON AND MONTEZUMA. MOVEMENT OF THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS EAST AT 15 MPH. SPOTTERS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS REPORTED HEAVY RAIN AND OCCASSIONALLY STRONG GUSTY WINDS WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS OCCURRED IN CENTRAL GEORGIA...PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER THIS EVENING. TH E WEATHER SERVICE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE THUNDERSTORMS AND ISSUE ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS TO KEEP YOU INFORMED.
Special weather statement, Apr 29, 6:51 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
GAZ002-004-300100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 650 PM EDT MON APR 29 1991 THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 241 FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL GEORGIA EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING UNTIL 1100 PM EDT. THIS INCLUDES ALL COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND C&LOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
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 | Barrow, Jackson | 55 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 | McDuffie | 69 min |
| Apr 29, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Burke, Jenkins | 41 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.