Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1986, 6:50 PM EDT for Clarke County, Georgia. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1986, 6:50 PM EDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1986, 7:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clarke 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 6 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 KAHN 092257
SVRAHN
GAC013-059-092350-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
650 PM EDT MON JUN 9 1986
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 750 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
..CLARKE..
AT 645 PM EDT THE ATHENS RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM
OVER WESTERN CLARKE COUNTY AND SOUTH OF ATHENS. MOVEMENT EAST
15 MILES AN HOUR. TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN IN BARROW AND JACKSON
COUNTIES.
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING, PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.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, 4 hours 26 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.
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 3:37 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 340 PM EDT MON JUN 9 1986 AT 330 PM RADAR IN MACON SHOWERD NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE HEAVIEST WERE LOCATED NEAR MACON AND EXTENDED SOUTH TO NEAR COCHRANE IN BLECKLEY COUNTY. ANOTHER AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM ABBEVILLE IN WILCOX COUNTY EAST TO NEAR RHINE IN DODGE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY SURFACE WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTING AND SOME SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. PERSONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A SAFE PL/ACE IF CONDITIONS WARRANT. JWB/1936
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 5:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 548 PM EDT MON JUN 9 1986 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA... MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE NORTHEAST GEORGIA AREA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THE NEXT 3 TO 4 HOURS FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST GEORGIA AREA. GUSTY WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.. HEAVY DOWNPOURS...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL MAY OCCUR IN THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. BOATERS AND OTHER WATER RECREATIONIST SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY AWARE OF THESE STORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 57 min |
| 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 |
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.