Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Atlanta, GA

SPECIAL WEATHER STATMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
835 AM EST WED MAR 19 1986

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT..LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDER
STORMS IS APPROACHING CENTRAL GEORGIA...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON
FOR A LARGE PART OF GEORGIA INCLUDING ALL OF CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTH OF..
AND INCLUDING..HOUSTON..TWIGGS..AND WILKINSON COUNTIES.

AT 830 THIS MORNING THE MACON WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF
VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR JACKSON IN BUTTS COUNTY
SOUTHWEST TO NEAR COLUMBUS IN WESTCENTRAL GEORGIA.

THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL
BE MOVING THROUGH MONROE COUNTY AND INTO PORTIONS OF JASPER..CRAWFORD..
BIBB..AND JONES COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

THESE STORMS ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS..AND
POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. MOTORIST SHOULD ESPECIALLY BE ALERT FOR HEAVY
 RAIN AND STREET FLOODING.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
550 AM EST WED MAR 19 1986

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS SOME VERY HEAVY EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST
OF BLAIRSVILLE IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA SOUTHWEST TO CEDARTOWN IN
NORTHWEST GEORGIA.

THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH UNION TOWN LUMPKIN AND WHITE
COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA DURING THE NEXT HOUR.  PEOPLE IN THESE
COUNTIES CAN EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.

WIND GUST6 TO 60 MILES AN HOUR OCCURED WITH THIS LINE OF STORMS
EARLIER THIS MORING WHEN THE LINE MOVED THROUGH NORTHEAST ALABAMA.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
635 AM EST WED MAR 19 1986

THUNDERSTORMS SOME VERY HEAVY EXTENDED IN A LINE FROM NEAR FRANKLIN
NORTH CAROLINA SOUTHWEST TO DAHLONEGA CARTERSVILLE AND CARROLLTON
GEORGIA.

IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA THIS LINE EXTENDED THROUGH RABUN TOWNS WHITE
AND LUMPKIN COUNTIES.  THIS LINE WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20
MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO HABERSHAM AND HALL COUNTIES.
F
HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS ARE OCCURRING WITH THIS LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
715 AM EST WED MAR 19 1986

STRONG GUSTY WINDS WITH A THUNDERSTORM IN COBB COUNTY, GEORGIA
AT ABOUT 630 AM EST DOWNED SOME TREES AND POWER LINES WITH SHINGLES
BLOWN OFF SOME ROOFS AND PUBLIC REPORTS OF TREES BLOWN ONTO SOME CARS.
THE WIND GUSTS WERE ESTIMATED AT 50 MILES AN HOUR OR MORE.

RADAR INDICATED A LARGE RAIN AREA WITH A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
FROM NEAR BLAIRSVILLE TO NORTH OF ATLANTA TO NEAR COLUMBUS AT 7 AM.
THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROBABLY CAUSED THE COBB COUNTY
DAMAGE HAD MOVED NORTH OF FORSYTH COUNTY INTO NORTHEAST GEORGIA.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE NEXoT
SEVERAL HOURS IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA.

RADAR INDICATED THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 50 MILES
AN HOUR AS THE RAIN AREA DEVELOPED EAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR.