Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1991, 2:25 PM EST for Burke County, Jenkins County, Screven County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1991, 2:25 PM EST (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1991, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Burke County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Screven County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 835 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAGS 291926 SVRAGS GAC033-165-251-292000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA 225 PM EST FRI MAR 29 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...BURKE COUNTY...JENKINS COUNTY...SCREVEN COUNTY AT 223 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE BURKE-JENKINS COUNTY LINE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH 7LITTLE 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, Mar 29, 1:28 PM EST, 57 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 115 PM EST FRI MAR 29 1991 PRELIMINARY REPORT COUNTY...... NORTHERN MUSCOGEE COUNTY, GEORGIA SOURCE...... COLUMBUS 911, AMATEUR RADIO, AND GENERAL PUBLIC TIME........ 7:40-8AM LOCATION.... DOUBLE CHURCHES SUBDIVISION, GREEN ISLAND HILLS TYPE STORM.. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE/TREES... TREES DOWNED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE NORTHERN PART OF CITY..... ALSO POWER LINES DOWNED. NUMEROUS TREES DOWN , ALONG GRAY ROCK ROAD IN NORTHERN PART OF THE CITY ALSO.
Local storm report, Mar 29, 1:34 PM EST, 51 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 115 PM EST FRI MAR 29 1991 PRELIMINARY REPORT COUNTY...... HARRIS COUNTY, GEORGIA SOURCE...... LAW ENFORCEMENT AND HARRIS COUNTY EMA TIME........ 8:35-9:20AM EST LOCATION.... ALL ACROSS THE ENTIRE COUNTY, ELLERSLIE AND HAMILTON TYPE STORM.. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DAMAGE......TREES AND LARGE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN FROM HIGH WINDS. RADIO TOWER AT CITY HALL IN HAMILTON BLOWN DOWN. TREES DOWN ON THE CITY HA6LL GOVERNMENT BLDG. IN HAMILTON. EXTENSIVE POWER OUTAGES ACROSS THE COUNTY.
Local storm report, Mar 29, 1:39 PM EST, 46 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 130 PM EST FRI MAR 29 1991 PRELIMINARY REPORT COUNTY...... TALBOT COUNTY, GEORGIA SOURCE...... LAW ENFORCEMENT AND GENERAL PUBLIC TIME........ 8:35-9:30A;M EST LOCATION.... JUST WEST OF TALBOTTON, THE COUNTY SEAT, AS WELL AS AS WIDESPREAD OVER ENTIRE COUNTY. DAMAGE......MANY TREES AND LARGE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN FROM HIGH WINDS. NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES IN THE COUNTY DUE TO DOWNED POWER LINES.
Local storm report, Mar 29, 2:16 PM EST, 9 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON, GA
215 PM EST FRI MAR 29 1991
COUNTY..... JASPER FIRS 159
SOURCE..... ELECTRIC EMC AND JASPER COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE
TIME....... 10 AM EST 3/29/91
LOCATION... WEST OF MONTICELLO ON HWY 16W AND CLAY ROAD.
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
DAMAGE..... SEVERAL POWERLINES BLOWN DOWN AND TREES DOWN
COUNTY..... MONROE FIRS 207
SOURCE..... CENTRAL GEORGIA EMC
TIME....... 945 AM EST 3/29/91
LOCATION... NORTH OF FORSYTH IN EXTREME NORTH OF COUNTY
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
DAMAGE..... POWER OUT DUE TO TREES ON LINES
COUNTY..... MONROE FIRS 207
SOURCE..... SHERIFF, FIRE DEPT, EMC.
TIME...... 1140 AM EST 3/29/91
LOCATION... SOUTHWEST AND NORTHEAST OF FORSYTH
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND POSSIBLE TORNADO...2 FUNNEL CLOUDS
SPOTTED BY FIRE DEPT PERSONNEL SOUTHWEST OF FORSYTH.
DAMAGE..... POWER OUTAGE DUE TO TREES ON LINES
COUNTY..... CRAWFORD FIRS 079
SOURCE..... SHERIFF OFFICE
TIME...... 1145 AM EST 3/29/91
LOCATION... BETWEEN KNOXVILLE AND ROBERTA
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
DAMAGE..... NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES
COUNTY..... JONES FIRS 169
SOURCE..... SHERIFF OFFICE
TIME....... 1215 EST 3/29/91
LOCATION... 3 MI SOUTH OF GRAY ON HWY 49 AND HWY 18
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
DAMAGE..... TREE ON HOUSE AND OTHERS ON POWER LINES
COUNTY..... BIBB FIRS 021
SOURCE..... CIVIL DEFENSE
TIME...... 1200 PM 3/29/91
LOCATION... ALL AREAS OF MACON
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
DAMAGE..... NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
COUNTY..... HOUSTON FIRS 153
SOURCE..... CIVIL DEFENSE AND OFF DUTY OBSERVER
TIME...... 1230 PM EST 3/29/91
LOCATION... NORTH WARNER ROBINS ON HOUSTON BLVD.
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
HAIL....... DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL
DAMAGE..... NONE REPORTED AT THIS TIME
COUNTY..... PEACH FIRS 225
SOURCE..... HAM RADIO OPERATOR
TIME...... 1220 PM EST 3/29/91
LOCATION... BYRON IN NORTH PEACH COUNTY
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
HAIL....... DIME SIZE HAIL
DAMAGE..... NONE REPORTEDLocal storm report, Mar 29, 2:17 PM EST, 8 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 215 PM EST FRI MAR 29 1991 PRELIMINARY REPORT COUNTY...... RUSSELL COUNTY, ALABAMA SOURCE...... SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT TIME........ 10AM-10:30AM EST LOCAT"ION.... IN THE PHENIX CITY AREA AND ALSO AT HURTSBORO. DAMAGE......HIGH WINDS CONTINUED TO CAUSE LARGE TREE LIMBS TO FALL. NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES IN THE COUNTY DUE TO DOWNED POWER LINES.
Local storm report, Mar 29, 2:22 PM EST, 3 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 215 PM EST FRI MAR 29 1991 PRELIMINARY REPORT COUNTY...... MUSCOGEE COUNTY, GEORGIA SOURCE...... 911 AND POLICE REPORTS TIME........ 10AM-10:40AM EST LO+CATION.... THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF COLUMBUS DAMAGE......HIGH WINDS CONTINUED TO CAUSE LARGE TREE LIMBS TO FALL. NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES IN THE COUNTY DUE TO DOWNED POWER LINES. ALSO HIGH WINDS BLOWING SIGNS DOWN THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 5:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 42 min |
| Mar 29, 7:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 29 min |
| Mar 29, 8:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 8:31 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 29 min |
| Mar 29, 8:37 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cobb | 38 min |
| Mar 29, 8:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 44 min |
| Mar 29, 9:05 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 40 min |
| Mar 29, 9:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 44 min |
| Mar 29, 9:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 51 min |
| Mar 29, 9:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fulton | 46 min |
| Mar 29, 9:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Monroe | 58 min |
| Mar 29, 9:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Lamar | 51 min |
| Mar 29, 9:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford | 64 min |
| Mar 29, 9:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Walton | 65 min |
| Mar 29, 10:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Franklin, Habersham, Jackson, Stephens | 61 min |
| Mar 29, 10:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow | 61 min |
| Mar 29, 10:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 25 min |
| Mar 29, 11:01 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Elbert, Franklin, Hart, Madison | 119 min |
| Mar 29, 11:01 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 119 min |
| Mar 29, 11:01 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stephens | 119 min |
| Mar 29, 11:12 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Monroe | 48 min |
| Mar 29, 11:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Jones | 58 min |
| Mar 29, 11:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford | 58 min |
| Mar 29, 11:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Houston, Peach | 55 min |
| Mar 29, 12:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 69 min |
| Mar 29, 12:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Washington | 60 min |
| Mar 29, 12:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 55 min |
| Mar 29, 12:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 55 min |
| Mar 29, 1:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Burke, Emanuel, Jefferson, Johnson | 33 min |
| Mar 29, 2:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 36 min |
| Mar 29, 3:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Peach | 56 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.