Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1986, 2:03 PM EDT for Barrow County, Georgia. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1986, 2:03 PM EDT (18:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1986, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barrow 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
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 346 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
- 1326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 695 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 271803 SVRAHN GAC013-271900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 203 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...WESTERN BARROW AT 1 PM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED ALONG THE GWINNETT-BARROW COUNTY LINE OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF WINDER. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED IF THREATENING CONIDTIONS ARE SIGHTED..SEEK REINFORCED SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR STRONG DAMAGING WIND..LARGE HAIL..VERY HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING. REMEMBER THESE STORMS CAN OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
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 27, 12:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GEORGIA 1255 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 1986 THUNDERSTORMS FORMING AT A RAPID RATE OVER THE NORTHERN PART OF GEORGIA AT 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON.. MAIN FORMING AREA HAS BEEN FROM ATHENS NORTHWESTWARD. SEVERE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS EXPECTED ALONG WITH BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS.. PERSONS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER AWAY FROM THE STORMS AS THEY FORM NEAR THEM. BOATERS SHOULD BE VERY ALERT TO ANY FORMING CLOUDS IN THEIR AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 1:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 62 min |
| Jul 27, 1:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 57 min |
| Jul 27, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rabun | 56 min |
| Jul 27, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 50 min |
| Jul 27, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 50 min |
| Jul 27, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs | 62 min |
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.