Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 1, 1991, 6:08 PM EST for Monroe County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 1991, 6:08 PM EST (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 1991, 6:45 PM EST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 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 KMCN 012308 SVRMCN GAC207-012345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 608 PM EST FRI MAR 1 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON GA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...MONROE COUNTY AT 605 PM RADAR IN MACON SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING NORTHEAST INTO MONROE COUNTY TOWARD FORSYTH. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 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
Special weather statement, Mar 1, 4:19 PM EST, 1 hour 49 minutes before
GAC077-149-199-231-285-293-012215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 418 PM EST FRI MAR 1 1991 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 18 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA AREA UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING. AT 415 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWS A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR LANETT ALABAMA. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MPH...AND WILL BE MOVING INTO TROUP COUNTY AND THE LAGRANGE AND THE LAKE WEST POINT AREA. PEOPLE IN THE AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AS THIS STORM APPROACHES FROM THE WEST.
Special weather statement, Mar 1, 5:09 PM EST, 59 minutes before
GAZ002-GAZ004-020015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 506 PM EST FRI MAR 1 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING NORTHEAST GEORGIA COUNTIES... BARROW...CLARKE...ELBERT...GREENE...JACKSON...MADISON...MORGAN ...NEWTON...OCONEE...OGLETHORPE...TALIAFERRO...WALTON AND WILKES... AT 5 PM EST THE ATHENS RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTCENTRAL GEORGIA MOVING NORTHEAST AT Z35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS THROUGHOUT NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD KEEP ALERT TO APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IMMEDIATELY. KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR ADDITIONAL UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Local storm report, Mar 1, 5:22 PM EST, 46 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 520 PM EST FRI MAR 1 1991 WARNING.... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. COUNTY..... COWETA SOURCE..... COWETA COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TIME...... AROUND 5 PMm EST LOCATION... IN MORELAND AND ON HIGHWAY 27 SOUTH OF MORELAND. DAMAGE..... TWO REPORTS OF TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN. HAIL....... NONE REPORTED INJURIES... NONE REMARKS.... NONE
Special weather statement, Mar 1, 5:27 PM EST, 41 minutes before
GAZ005-008-012-020030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 526 PM EST FRI MAR 1 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 18 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7PM EST FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA... ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 19 IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF WEST CENTRAL..SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 10 PM EST. AT 518 PM EST COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR WAS INDICATING A LARGE AREA OF MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSHOWERS OCCURRING ACROSS NORTHWEST GEORGIA INTO MOST OF EASTERN ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN GEORGIA ALONG THE LEADING EDGE FROM THOMASTON TO AMERICUS. ALL THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING A LITTLE NORTH OF EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS NEAR THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT WINDS TO 35 MILES AN HOUR..VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WvARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 1, 5:34 PM EST, 34 minutes before
GAZ004-012330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 533 PM EST FRI MAR 1 1991 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000PM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA... BARROW...CLARKE...ELBERT...GREENE...JACKSON...MADISON...MORGAN... NEWTON...OCONEE...OGLETHORPE...TALIAFERRO...AND WALTON. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUED OVER THE WESTERN THIRD OF GEORGIA AND EXTENDED INTO ALABAMA AND TENNESSEE. THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WERE NEAR AND JUST SOUTH OF ATLANTA. THIS AREA WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR WIHILE CELL MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. A FEW SHOWERS REMAINED OVER THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
Local storm report, Mar 1, 5:34 PM EST, 34 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 535 PM EST FRI MAR 1 1991 WARNING.... NONE COUNTY..... FAYETTE SOURCE..... PEACHTREE CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT TIME...... AROUND 515 PM EST LOCATION... NORTHEAST PEACHTREE CITY DAMAGE..... TREES BLOWN DOWN. HAIL....... NONE REPORTED INJURIES... NONE REMARKS.... NONE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 4:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 48 min |
| Mar 1, 4:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 51 min |
| Mar 1, 5:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Spalding | 47 min |
| Mar 1, 5:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rockdale | 33 min |
| Mar 1, 5:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Walton | 67 min |
| Mar 1, 6:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Madison, Oglethorpe | 43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.