Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1986, 2:19 PM EDT for Rabun County, Georgia. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1986, 2:19 PM EDT (18:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1986, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rabun 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 321 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -289 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1091 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAAOO KAHN 271819
SVRAHN
GAC241-271915-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
219 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 1986
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
..RABUN
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS IN RABUN COUNTY AT 215 PM
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING, PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.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 24 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.
Local storm report, Jul 27, 2:10 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA COUNTY........ BARROW SOURCE........ DACULA PD TIME.......... 205 PM 7/27/86 LOCATION...... 10 MILES WEST OF WINDER TYPE STORM.... THUNDERSTORM HAIL.......... NONE DAMAGE........ TREES DOWN INJURIES...... NONE WARNING....... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2PM-3PM
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, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow | 57 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.