Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1991, 4:33 PM EDT for Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 1991, 4:33 PM EDT (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1991, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Polk County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 803 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 1:13 PM EDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
GAZ002-191915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 112 PM EDT FRI APR 19 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO NORTHEAST GEORGIA... AT 110 PM EDT THE ATHENS RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR BLAIRSVILLE IN UNION COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS THROUGHOUT NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE RAMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS OF THIS INTENSITY OFTEN PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS... DEADLY LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...YOU SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
Local storm report, Apr 19, 2:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 250 PM EDT FRI APR 19 1991 COUNTY........HALL SOURCE........HALL COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE TIME..........242 PM EDT FRI APR 19 1991 LOCATION......\NORTHEAST OF GAINESVILLE TYPE STORM....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL..........NONE YET DAMAGE........TREES DOWN ONTO POWER LINES INJURIES......NONE
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 3:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
GAZ004-192115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 309 PM EDT FRI APR 19 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH EFFECTIVE UNTIL 9 PM EDT FOR THE NORTHEAST GEORGIA COUNTIES OF BANKS...BARROW...CLARKE...ELBERT... FRANKLIN...GREENE...HALL...HART...JACKSON...MADISON...MOGRAN... NEWTON...OCONEE...OGLETHORPE...STEPHENS...TALIFERRO...WALTON AND WILDES... AT 305 PM EDT THE ATHENS RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA WITH THE STRONGEST STORM IN THE GAINESVILLE VICINITY. THEY WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS THROUGHOUT THE AREA SHOULD KEEP ALERT TO APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS RAPIDLY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PAST. KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO...T.V. STATIONS FOR LATER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 3:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
GAZ004-192115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 309 PM EDT FRI APR 19 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH EFFECTIVE UNTIL 9 PM EDT FOR THE NORTHEAST GEORGIA COUNTIES OF BANKS...BARROW...CLARKE...ELBERT... FRANKLIN...GREENE...HALL...HART...JACKSON...MADISON...MORGAN... NEWTON...OCONEE...OGLETHORPE...STEPHENS...TALIFERRO...WALTON AND WILKES... AT 305 PM EDT THE ATHENS RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA WITH THE STRONGEST STORM IN THE GAINESVILLE VICINITY. THEY WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS THROUGHOUT THE AREA SHOULD KEEP ALERT TO APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS RAPIDLY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PAST. KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO...T.V. STATIONS FOR LATER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 4:14 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
GAZ005-192215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 415 PM EDT FRI APR 19 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHWARD UNTIL 9 PM EDT... AT 410 PM EDT COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM LAFAYETTE AND OPELIKA ALABAMA AND COLUMBUS GEORGIA EXTENDING NORTHWARD TO LAGRANGE...HOGANSVILLE AND NEWNAN GEORGIA. MOVEMENT OF ALL ACTIVITY WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN A THUNDERSTORM THREATENS...GET INSIDE A HOME OR LARGE STURDY BUILDING. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES EXCEPT FOR EMERGENCIES.
Local storm report, Apr 19, 4:28 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 425 PM EDT FRI APR 19 1991 COUNTY........MADISON SOURCE........MADISON COUNTY E.M.A. TIME..........415 PM EDT FRI APR 19 1991 LOCATION......NEAR COLBERT TYPE STORM....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAIL..........DIME TO PENNY SIZE DAMAGE........NONE YET INJURIES......NONE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 12:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 27 min |
| Apr 19, 1:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 65 min |
| Apr 19, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 39 min |
| Apr 19, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 40 min |
| Apr 19, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 30 min |
| Apr 19, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Henry | 68 min |
| Apr 19, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Newton | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 32 min |
| Apr 19, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 57 min |
| Apr 19, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Columbia, Richmond | 65 min |
| Apr 19, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Newton, Walton | 63 min |
| Apr 19, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Burke | 44 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.