Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1986, 9:53 PM EDT for Putnam County, Georgia. It was in force for 67 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1986, 9:53 PM EDT (01:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1986, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Putnam County, GA
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 10:03 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Putnam, GA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 345 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2435 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 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 270153 SVRMCN GAC237-270300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 953 PM EDT THU JUN 26 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA...PUTNAM AT 945 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED BY RADAR NORTHEAST OF EATONTON IN PUTNAM COUNTY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN THE VICINITY OF THIS THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD GO TO SAFE SHELTER. THIS THUNDERSTORMS IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE WINDS AT LEAST 58 MPH AND HAIL 3/4 INCH DIAMETER OR LARGER.
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 26, 5:48 PM EDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS, GA 547 PM EDT THU JUN 26 1986 ..THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA.. AT 545 PM EDT COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS LARGE AND INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA FROM AMERICUS WEST TO PRESTON AND LUMPKIN GEORGIA AND TO SOUTH OF HURTSBORO AND UNION SPRINGS ALABAMA. THE STORMS WERE SHOWING LITTLE IF ANY MOVEMENT. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT..SOME BRIEF FLOODING OF SOME AREA ROADWAYS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THE LARGER ONES. THERE MAY ALSO BE SHORT PERIODS OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL..AS WELL AS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE NUMBER AND INTENSITIES OF THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD GRADUALLY DECREASE TOWARD EVENING. PERSONS IN WEST GEORGIA AND EAST ALABAMA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS..AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION S]TATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 7:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 750 PM EDT THU JUN 26 1986 ...THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 745 PM WEATHER RADAR IN MACON SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA HAD DECREASE IN STRENGTH SIGNIFICANTLY...AND WAS NO LONGER A THREAT. THUNDERSTORMS STILL CONTINUED ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA WITH STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR FORT VALLEY IN PEACH COUNTY...AND SOUTHEAST OF OF DUBLIN IN LAURENS COUNTY. HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE AND OTHER THUNDERSTORMS IN THE CENTRAL GEORGIA AREA THIS EVENING.
Local storm report, Jun 26, 9:15 PM EDT, 38 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON, GA
915 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1986
COUNTY..... MONTGOMERY, CENTRAL GEORGIA, FIPS 209
SOURCE..... MT VERNON POLICE...AND TOOMBS COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE
TIME...... 1920 EDT/2320Z 6/26/86
LOCATION... 10 MILES WEST OF VIDALIA NEAR HIGGSTON IN MONTGOMERY CO.
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
HAIL....... LARGE HAIL REPORTED BY SHERIFF, SIZE UNKNOWN
DAMAGE..... HIGH WINDS CAUSING PINE TREES TO BEND TO THE GROUND.
TREE REPORTED BLOWN DOWN IN MT VERNON, MONGOMERY COUNTY.
WARNINGS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED AT 1912 EDT/2312Z
FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
REMARKS.... NO MAJOR TOWNS IN AREA WITH POLICE OR OTHERS TO CONTACT
AT THIS TIME.
TJB.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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.