Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1986, 6:40 PM EDT for Ben Hill County, Irwin County, Georgia. It was in force for 55 min. 2 reports 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 23, 1986, 6:40 PM EDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1986, 7:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ben Hill County, GA, Irwin 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 23, 7:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Irwin, GA | |
| Jul 23, 7:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Ben Hill, 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
Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 1297 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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 232309 SVRMCN GAC155-017-240000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 640 PM EDT WED JUL 23 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF CENTRAL GEORGIA...IRWIN AND BEN HILL AT 640 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MACON SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF FITZGERALD MOVING SOUTHWEST. 8 DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
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 23, 1:09 PM EDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GEORGIA. 1310 PM EDT WED JUL 23 1986 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. PERSONS IN AREAS WHERE THUNDERSTORMS OCCUR CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. DRIVERS SHOULD USE CAUTION AS SUDDEN DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE EXTREMELY REDUCED VISIBILITIES AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. HEAVY RAIN MAY ALSO PRODUCE SOME MINOR SMALL STREAM OR URBAN FLOODING.
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 1:12 PM EDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GEORGIA. 110 PM EDT WED JUL 23 1986 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. PERSONS IN AREAS WHERE THUNDERSTORMS OCCUR CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. DRIVERS SHOULD USE CAUTION AS SUDDEN DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE EXTREMELY REDUCED VISIBILITIES AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. HEAVY RAIN MAY ALSO PRODUCE SOME MINOR SMALL STREAM OR URBAN FLOODING.
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 5:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GEORGIA 530 PM EDT WED JUL 23 1986 A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA FROM THE NORTHERN PORTION OF CLARK HILL RESERVOIR TO JUST NORTH OF ATHENS AND TO NEAR DAHLONEGA. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS, STRONG GUSTY WINDS, DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM NEAR THOMASTON TO THE ATLANTA AREA. ELSEWHERE...ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF GEORGIA, EASTERN ALABAMA, SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE AND THE WESTERN CAROLINAS. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 55 min |
| Jul 23, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 67 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.