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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1986, 5:51 PM EDT for Bibb County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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
- Jul 22, 1986, 5:51 PM EDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1986, 6:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bibb 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 6:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Bibb, 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 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 486 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1011 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 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 222151 SVRMCN GAC021-222300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 551 PM EDT TUE JUL 22 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA...BIBB AT 545 PM EDT A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR OVER THE CITY OF MACON GEORGIA MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST.
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
Local storm report, Jul 22, 3:17 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA COUNTY........ RABUN SOURCE........ COOP OBS TIME.......... 1515EST 7/22/86 LOCATION...... MT CITY GEORGIA TYPE STORM.... THUNDERSTORM HAIL.......... NO DAMAGE........ TREES DOWN INJURIES...... NONE WARNING....... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 1500-1600EDT
Local storm report, Jul 22, 3:41 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA COUNTY........ RABUN SOURCE........ PUBLIC TIME.......... 1530EST 7/22/86 LOCATION...... SOUTH PART OF LAKE BURTON TYPE STORM.... THUNDERS-TORM HAIL.......... NO DAMAGE........ TREES DOWN INJURIES...... NONE WARNING....... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 1500-1600EDT
Local storm report, Jul 22, 3:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA COUNTY........ HABERSHAM SOURCE........ PUBLIC TIME.......... 1530EST 7/22/86 LOCATION...... NORTH PART OF HABERSHAM COUNTY NEAR LAKE BURTON. TYPE STORM.... THUNDERSTORM HAIL.......... NO DAMAGE........ TREES DOWN INJURIES...... NONE WARNING....... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 1500-1600EDT
Local storm report, Jul 22, 4:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA COUNTY........ HABERSHAM SOURCE........ EOC TIME.......... 1615EST 7/22/86 LOCATION...... NORTH PART OF HABERSHAM COUNTY NEAR LAKE BURTON ETYPE STORM.... THUNDERSTORM HAIL.......... NO DAMAGE........ TREES DOWN INJURIES...... NONE WARNING....... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 1600-1700EDT
Local storm report, Jul 22, 4:59 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA COUNTY........ FRANKLINM SOURCE........ PUBLIC THROUGH SHF OFFICE TIME.......... 1650EST 7/22/86 LOCATION...... NORTH PART OF FRANKLIN COUNTYw NEAR HARTWELL LAKE TYPE STORM.... THUNDERSTORM HAIL.......... MARBLE SIZE DAMAGE........ TREES DOWN WINDS EST 60MPH INJURIES...... NONE WARNING....... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 1630-1730EDT
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 5:14 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 510PM EDT TUE JUL 22 1986 ..VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA.. WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS MUCH OF THE STATE..INCLUDING PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA. AT 510 PM EDT THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER SOUTH JASPER..NORTHWEST JONES..WESTERN CRAWFORD..NORTHERN TWIGGS..AND ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA FROM NEAR REBECCA IN TURNER COUNTY EAST INTO SOUTHERN LAURENS COUNTY. RADAR INDICATES A SLOW SOUTHEAST MOVEMENT OF 5 TO 10 MPH. PERSONS IN THE AREA OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR VERY STRONG WINDS..BRIEF HEAVY RAIN..AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 8:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike, Spalding | 40 min |
| Jul 22, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 58 min |
| Jul 22, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Habersham, Rabun | 58 min |
| Jul 22, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Habersham | 62 min |
| Jul 22, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Franklin | 57 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.