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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 1, 1991Lincoln County, Wilkes County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 1, 1991, 8:11 PM EST for Lincoln County, Wilkes County, Georgia. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 1, 1991, 8:11 PM EST (01:11 UTC)
Expired: Mar 1, 1991, 9:15 PM EST
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lincoln County, GA, Wilkes County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 67 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: 52 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 538 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 737 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KAGS 020121
SVRAGS
GAC181-317-SCC065-020215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA
811 PM EST FRI MAR 1 1991
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...LINCOLN COUNTY...WILKES COUNTY
 
 
IN WEST CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...MCCORMICK COUNTY
 
AT 8 PM EST A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING THROUGH WILKES
COUNTY GEORGIA AND INTO LINCOLN COUNTY GEORGIA AND MCCORMICK COUNTY
SOUTH CAROLINA. THIS LINE IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
AS THESE STORMS PASSED THROUGH ATHENS GEORGIA WIND GUSTS TO 83 MPH
WERE RECORDED.
 
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, 6:43 PM EST, 1 hour 28 minutes before

GAZ003-020030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION..WATCH #20 IS A TORNADO WATCH...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA  GA
638 PM EST FRI MAR 1 1991

THE SEVERE TUNDERSTORM WARNINGS ISSUED EARLIER THIS EVENING FOR
SEVERAL COUNTIES JUST SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST OF ATLANTA HAVE
EXPIRED. PRELIMINARY REPORTS SHOW THAT THERE WAS SOME TREE DAMAGE
IN COWETA, TROUP, AND FAYETTE COUNTIES AS THE STRONG THUDERSTORMS
MOVED THROUGH LATE THIS AFTERNOON.

THE STRONGEST STORMS HAVE NOW MOVED TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST
OF THE ATLANTA METRO AREA.  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICES
IN MACON AND ATHENS ARE NOW TRACKING THESE STORMS.

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 18 FOR WEST-CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM EST.  TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 19 WHICH COVERS
A LARGE PART OF NORTH...MIDDLE...AND SOUTH-CENTRAL GEORGIA
CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM.
ANOTHER TORNADO WATCH...NUMBER 20...IS NOW BEING ISSUED.
THIS WATCH COVERS EXTREME SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH-CENT"RAL GEORGIA
NEAR THE FLORIDA BORDER.

Local storm report, Mar 1, 6:44 PM EST, 1 hour 27 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
645 PM EST FRI MAR 1 1991

WARNING.... NONE
COUNTY..... CLAYTON
SOURCE..... PUBLIC
TIME......  AROUND 540 PM EST
LOCATION... ON TAYLOR ROAD IN CLAYT%ON COUNTY
DAMAGE..... NONE REPORTED
HAIL....... MARBLE SIZE.
INJURIES... NONE
REMARKS.... NONE

Special weather statement, Mar 1, 6:56 PM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes before

GAZ006-008-009-020100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
653 PM EST FRI MAR 1 1991

...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 10 PM FOR MUCH OF GEORGIA INCLUDING
ALL OF THE CENTRAL COUNTIES...

AT 645 PM RADAR IN MACON SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL
GEORGIA FROM NORTH OF MONTICELLO IN JASPER COUNTY SOUTHWARD TO JUST
WEST OF MACON AND FURTHER SOUTH TO MONTEZUMA IN MACON COUNTY.
MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

BECAUSE OF THE FAST MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND OTHER RADAR
INDICATIONS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS
AS THEY CONTINUE MOVING NORTHEAST. HEAVY RAINS ARE ALSO LIKELY.

SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT IS STILL POSSIBLE 7IN THE WATCH AREA...
THEREFORE CONTINUE TO MONITOR LOCAL BROADCASTS FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, Mar 1, 7:18 PM EST, 53 minutes before

GAZ003-GAZ005-020115-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA  GA
717 PM EST FRI MAR 1 1991

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 19 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES IN THE AREA FROM ATLANTA SOUTH TO THOMASTON.  THE WATCH
HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...COBB...FULTON...GWINNETT
...DEKALB...CLAYTON...ROCKDALE...HENRY...FAYETTE...SPALDING...BUTTS
...LAMAR...AND UPSON.

A FEW THUNDERSHOWERS MAY CONTINUE IN THE AREUA THIS EVENING...BUT NO
SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED.  THE BAND OF STRONG TO OCCASIONALLY SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS HAS NOW MOVED TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF THESE COUNTIES
...AND THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT IN THE AREA FROM ATHENS SOUTH TOWARD
MACON.

Local storm report, Mar 1, 7:25 PM EST, 46 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
725 PM EST FRI MAR 1 1991

COUNTY........ OCONEE

SOURCE........OCONEE COUNTY E.M.A.

TIME..........APPROX 655 PM EST

LOCATION......BETWeEEN WATKINSVILLE AND BOGART GEORGIA

TYPE STORM....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM

HAIL..........NONE

DAMAGE........TREES DOWN BETWEEN WATKINSVILLE AND BOGART...POWER
              OUT IN WATKINSVILLE
INJURIES......NONE AT THIS TIME

Special weather statement, Mar 1, 8:09 PM EST, 2 minutes before

GAZ005-008-011-ALZ012-GAZ012-020315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA
808 PM EST FRI MAR 1 1991

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 19 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF
WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA...HOWEVER THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR
PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 10 PM EST.

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 20 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST FOR
THE REST OF SOUTHWEST INTO SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA.

AT 800 PM EST COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR WAS SHOWING LIGHT TO MODERATE
RAIN WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSHOWERS ACROSS MOST OF EASTERN ALABAMA
AND ALL OF WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA INTO SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. THE LEADING
EDGE OF ALL THIS RAIN WAS FROM JEFFERSONVILLE TO LEESBURG AND
DONALDSONVILLE. THIS WHOLE AREA WAS MOVING EAST AT 12 MPH WHILE
INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND STAY PREPARED
FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER. FLOODING COULD BECOME A PROBLEM LATER
TONIGHT..ESPECIALLY IN METROPOLITAN AREAS OF EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA
AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER
NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 1, 7:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Elbert, Hart	50 min
Mar 1, 7:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Taliaferro	50 min
Mar 1, 7:41 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Bibb, Houston	64 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.