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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 5, 1991Douglas County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1991, 5:23 PM EDT for Douglas 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, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 1991, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Douglas County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 5, 5:24 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Douglas, 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 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

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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

Local storm report, May 5, 11:55 AM EDT, 5 hours 28 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, 2 hours 21 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, 1 hour 9 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, 1 hour 6 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, 37 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, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Fayette	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

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.