Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1986, 5:20 PM EDT for Lincoln County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1986, 5:20 PM EDT (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1986, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 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 KAGS 152120 SVRAGS GAC181-152200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA 520 PM EDT TUE JUL 15 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA...LINCOLN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS SHOWN BY RADAR 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF WASHINGTON..GEORGIA AND MOVING TOWARD THE CLARK HILL RESERVOIR. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS DEFINED AS HAVING WINDS AT LEAST 58 MPH AND/OR HAIL 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER OR LARGER. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS. THIS STORM IS ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.
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, Jul 15, 3:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
TTAASP KAHN 151906 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 300 PM EDT TUE JUL 15 1986 AT 250 PM EDT THE ATHENS RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS LOCATED NORTHEAST OF CLAYTON..IN RABUN COUNTY..AND JUST NORTH OF LAVONIA..IN NORTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY AND WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 12 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND SHOULD CONTINUE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL..BRIEF GUSTY WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE A,FTERNOON. PERSONS NEAR THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER AWAY FROM THE LIGHTNING.. AND BOATERS SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION AS THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH.
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 4:36 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 430 PM EDT TUE JUL 15 1986 A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA FROM SOUTH OF HARTWELL TO EAST OF THE ATHENS AREA AND TO NEAR MADISON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SOME SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST 10 MPH. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING FROM NEAR MACON GEORGIA NORTHEAST ACROSS THE WESTERN TIP OF SOUTH CAROLINA TO NEAR ASHEVILLE NORTH CAROLINA. AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALSO INDICATED NEAR COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLINA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST 1g0 MPH.
Nearby
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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.