Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 1991, 2:05 PM EST for Aiken County, Edgefield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1991, 2:05 PM EST (19:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1991, 2:30 PM EST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Aiken County, SC, Edgefield County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 450 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 356 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAGS 291905 TORAGS SCC003-037-291930- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA 205 PM EST FRI MAR 29 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA ...AIKEN COUNTY...EDGEFIELD COUNTY AT 200 PM EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS OFFICIALS REPORTED TWO FUNNELS CLOUDS ALONG THE AIKEN-EDGEFIELD COUNTY LINE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A `CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 29, 12:14 PM EST, 1 hour 51 minutes before
GAZ001-003-005-291800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GEORGIA 1210 PM EST FRI MAR 29 1991 ...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA... AT 1210 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN OVER MOST OF NORTH GEORGIA WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS. ALTHOUGH ISOLATED GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL REMAIN POSSIBLE NEAR STRONGER THUNDERSHOWERS...THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES HAS DIMINISHED OVER NORTH GEORGIA. THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER REMAINS OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA AHEAD OF A STRONG COLDFRONT MOVING SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE STATE. THE TORNADO WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA. THESE ADDITIONAL COUNTIES HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM THE TORNADO WATCH: MERIWETHER PIKE UPSON LAMAR SPALDING
Special weather statement, Mar 29, 12:24 PM EST, 1 hour 41 minutes before
GAZ002-004-291830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1221 PM EST FRI MAR 29 1991 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...CLARKE...ELBERT...FRANKLIN...HART...MADISON...OCONEE...OGLETHORPAND STEPHENS COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA HAS BEEN CANCELLED... ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 1220 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSxTORMS COVERING MOST OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. HOWEVER...THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES HAS DIMINISHED.
Local storm report, Mar 29, 1:15 PM EST, 50 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 115 PM EST FRI MAR 29 1991 PRELIMINARY REPORT COUNTY...... SOUTHERN HARRIS COUNTY, GEORGIA SOURCE...... HARIS COUNTY EMA TIME........ 7:45-8:15AM EST LOCATION.... CATAULA AND ELLESLIE IN SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY. TYPE STORM.. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE/TREES... LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN EVERYWHERE! SOME TREES DOWN . INJURIES.... NONE
Local storm report, Mar 29, 1:28 PM EST, 37 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, 31 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, 26 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.
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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.