Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1986, 2:38 PM EDT for Dodge County, Georgia. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1986, 2:38 PM EDT (18:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1986, 3:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dodge County, GA
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 540 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1231 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCN 091838 SVRMCN GAC091-091935- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 238 PM EDT MON JUN 9 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 335 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA...DODGE AT 235 PM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED BY RADAR NEAR CHAUNCEY GEORGIA IN DODGE COUNTY. MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. * THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY !!
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, Jun 9, 2:24 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 225 PM EDT MON JUN 9 1986 AT 215 PM RADAR IN MACON SHOWED NUMEROUS SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL GEORGIA. THE HEAVIEST WERE LOCATED BETWEEN VIDALIA AND FITZGERALD AND NEAR UNADILLA IN SOUTHCENTRAL GEORGIA... ALSO WEST OF MACON NORTH OF ROBERTA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST NEAR 5 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES...GUST&Y WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. PEOPLE OUTDOORS SHOULD OBSERVE LIGHTNING SAFETY RULES IN AND AROUND THUNDERSTORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Henry | 60 min |
| Jun 9, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 60 min |
| Jun 9, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan | 60 min |
| Jun 9, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson, Oconee | 50 min |
| Jun 9, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.