Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1991, 4:53 PM EDT for Clayton County, Fayette County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 min. 1 report 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
- May 5, 1991, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1991, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clayton County, GA, Fayette County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 5:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Fayette, 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 052054 SVRATL GAC063-113-052145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 453 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...CLAYTON COUNTY...FAYETTE COUNTY RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHWEST FAYETTE COUNTY NEAR PEACHTREE CITY. MARBLE SIZED HAIL WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM. IT WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO THE PANHANDLE SECTION OF CLAYTON COUNTY. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERScTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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, May 5, 11:55 AM EDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT REF THUNDERSTORM MAY 4TH... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON, GA 1155 AM EDT SUN MAY 5 1991 ...PRELIMINARY INFORMATION ONLY...REPORTS MAY BE INCOMPLETE... COUNTY..... LAURENS FIRS 175 SOURCE..... RADIO STATION/PUBLIC REPORTS/OFF DUTY DEPUTY SHERIFF TIME....... 530 PM 5/4/91 LOCATION... EAST DUBLIN, GEORGIA AND RENTZ GEORGIA TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WIDTH...... N/A LENGTH..... N/A HAIL....... DIME SIZE IN EAST GEORGIA AND LARGE (UNSPECIFIED) IN RENTZ DAMAGE..... NONE REPORTED INJURIES... NONE REPORTED COST....... UNKNOWN
Special weather statement, May 5, 3:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
GAZ004-052000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 301 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1991 AT 300 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NEWTON AND MORGAN COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN NEWTON...MORGAN...GREENE...AND OCONEE COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA.
Special weather statement, May 5, 4:14 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
GAZ001-002-003-005-052215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 413 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT FOR WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT FOR MOST OF NORTH GEORGIA... AT 410 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING TO DEVELOP IN WARM HUMID AIR ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA. STRONGEST WERE BETWEEN ATLANTA AND COLUMBUS AND SOUTHWEST OF ATHENS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A BAND FROM NORTHWEST GEORGIA NEAR ROME SOUTHWESTWARD INTO EASTERN ALABAMA NEAR ANNISTON. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS IN ALABAMA HAVE PRODUCED DIME SIZED HAIL WITHIN THE PAST HOUR. ALL THE STORMS( WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. RESIDENTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED IN THE EVENT A WARNING IS ISSUED.
Special weather statement, May 5, 4:17 PM EDT, 36 minutes before
GAZ005-ALZ012-GAZ006-052115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 415 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA UNTIL 9 PM EDT... AT 410 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR IN COLUMBUS INDICATED SEVERAL LARGE...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR TUSKEGEE...AUBURN AND OPELIKA ALABAMA. NUMEROUS OTHER THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR ANNISTON ALABAMA SOUTH TO MONTGOMERY AND UNION SPRINGS ALABAMA. OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN LAGRANGE AND NEWNAN. MOVEMENT WAS GENERALLY EAST ABOUT 35 TO 40 MPH. PEOPLE THROUGHOUT WEST GEORGIA AND EAST ALABAMA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. SEVERE WEATHER...INCLUDING TORNADOES...CAN DEVELOP VERY RAPIDLY. BE READY TO MOVE QUICKLY AND TAKE SHELTER IF NECESSARY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER UPDATES FROM *THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Local storm report, May 5, 4:46 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 445 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1991 COUNTY........ NEWTON SOURCE........DISPATCHER SHERIFF OFFICE TIME..........325 PM EDT LOCATION......WEST SIDE OF COVWINGTON TYPE STORM....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL..........NOT REPORTED DAMAGE........STRONG WINDS A FEW TREES DOWN INJURIES......NONE REPORTED
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Newton, Walton | 55 min |
| May 5, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 52 min |
| May 5, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Coweta, Fulton | 48 min |
| May 5, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 47 min |
| May 5, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Peach | 39 min |
| May 5, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Houston, Monroe | 45 min |
| May 5, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Pulaski | 42 min |
| May 5, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones, Twiggs | 42 min |
| May 5, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley | 41 min |
| May 5, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Wilkinson | 60 min |
| May 5, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 60 min |
| May 5, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens | 60 min |
| May 5, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Treutlen, Wheeler | 65 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.