Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1986, 8:04 PM EDT for McDuffie County, Wilkes County, Georgia. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 1986, 8:04 PM EDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1986, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties McDuffie County, GA, Wilkes 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 2109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1000 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAGS 300004 SVRAGS GAC317-189-300100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA 804 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA...SOUTHERN WILKES AND MCDUFFIE WEATHER RADAR IS OBSERVING A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH THROUGH SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY..NEARING THE MCDUFFIE COUNTY LINE AT THIS TIME. 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. IF DARK THREATENING CLOUDS OR LOUD ROARING SOUNDS APPROACH YOUR AREA...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR HALLWAY IS THE SAFEST PLACE. LISTEN TO WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST BULLETINS. 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 29, 3:44 PM EDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 340 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 1986 AT 335 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN MACON SHOWED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN LAURENS COUNTY NORTH OF DUBLIN..IN TREUTLEN COUNTY NORTHEAST OF SOPERTON AND DODGE COUNTY EAST OF EASTMAN GEORGIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS, DANGEROUS LIGHTING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS LOCATED NEAR THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE IF CONDITIONS WARRANT. JWB/1941Z
Local storm report, Jul 29, 5:52 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 545 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 1986 COUNTY.....BEN HILL SOURCE.....RADIO STATION WBHB..FITZGERALD TIME.......425 PM EDT LOCATION...SOUTH FITZGERALD IN BEN HILL COUNTY TYPE STORM.SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. WIDTH......UNKN LENGTH.....UNKN HAIL.......NICKEL SIZE DAMAGE.....NONE REPORTED TREES......UNKN INJURES....UNKN COST.......UNKN WATCHES....NONE WARNINGS...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING VALID 416PM EDT-515 PM EDT
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 6:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS, GA 650 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 1986 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED IN LINES IN SOUTH GEORGIA... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR TIFT COUNTY HAS DECREASED IN INTENSITY AND THE WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM. HOWEVER THIS STORM WAS JUST EAST OF TIFTON AND PART OF A SCATTERED LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED TO 7 MILES WEST OF SYLVESTER. ALL THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS ACROSS WORTH..TIFT..COLQUITT AND COOK COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SHOULD BE READY TO TAKE PROTECTIVE MEASURES AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH. THEY SHOULD BEGIN TO DECREASE ONCE THE SUN GOES DOWN BUT UNTIL THEN..STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO 45 MPH ALONG WITH SOME VERY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL BE A THREAT. VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 7:50 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS, GA 750 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 1986 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR MITCHELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WORTH COUNTY IS CANCELLED SINCE THE STORM HAS MOVED SOUTHWEST INTO NORTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY HEADED FOR BACONTON. THIS STORM IS STILL SEVERE AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL AND DANGEROUS WINDS. ANOTHER VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR ARLINGTON IN NORTHEAST EARLY COUNTY BUT WAS DECREASING. MOVEMENT OF ALL THIS ACTIVITY WAS NOW SOUTHWEST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER THAT COULD BE VERY DANGEROUS. THE INTENSE HEAT COUPLED WITH WITH A LOW PRESSURE TROUPH HAS BEEN THE REASON FOR SUCH INTENSE STORMS. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR TV AND RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
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.