Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 1986, 3:11 PM EST for Treutlen County, Georgia. It was in force for 64 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
- Mar 13, 1986, 3:11 PM EST (20:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 1986, 4:15 PM EST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Treutlen 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 3:50 PM EST | Hail 1 | Treutlen, 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 391 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 464 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCN 132011 SVRMCN GAC283-132115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 311 PM EST THU MAR 13 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA...TREUTLEN AT 305 PM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST TREUTLEN COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 40 EMPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER, THESE STORMS CAN..AND OCCASIONALLY DO.. 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, Mar 13, 10:00 AM EST, 5 hours 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 1000 AM EST THU MAR 13 1986 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT WAS ISSUED FOR MORGAN COUNTY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. AT 10 AM A LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED FROM HARTWELL GEORGIA TO ATHENS TO MADISON GEORGIA. THIS LINE WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY EVEN SOME HAIL AS IT MOVES TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THE 6POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS STILL EXIST WITH THIS LINE AND PERSON IN ADVANCE OF THE LINE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND LISTEN TO NOAA RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO STATIONS.
Local storm report, Mar 13, 10:13 AM EST, 4 hours 58 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
10 AM EST THU MAR 13 1986
0950 EST MORGAN COUNTY GA 6 MILES NORTH OF MADISON GA HAM RADIO
PERSON REPORTED HVY RAIN GUSTY WINDS BUT NO DAMAG?E.
SHF OFFICE AT MORGAN COUNTY HAS HAD NO DAMAGE REPORTS
SO FAR...Special weather statement, Mar 13, 11:06 AM EST, 4 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 1105 AM EST THU MAR 13 1986 THE LINE OF HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS THAT APPROACHED CENTRAL GEORGIA EARLIER THIS MORNING IS REORGANIZING AND AGAIN MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 15 MPH. AT 11 AM EST MACON WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THE LINE EXTENDING FROM SOUTH OF ATHENS SOUTHWEST ACROSS EASTERN UPSON COUNTY..THEN SOUTHWEST TO NEAR COLUMBUS. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS IN THE LINE WERE MOVING INTO NORTHWEST MONROE COUNTY AND WILL BE APPROACHING FORSYTH WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO OCCURRING IN NORTHERN JASPER COUNTY. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAIN.. GUSTY WIND..AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA.
Special weather statement, Mar 13, 1:50 PM EST, 1 hour 21 minutes before
TTAA00 KMCN131850AL WEATHER STATMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 145 PM EST THU MAR 13 1986 AT 140 PM EST THE MACON WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER A LARGE PART OF GEORGIA INCLUDING MUCH OF CENTRAL GEORGIA. SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED IN NORTHERN HOUSTON COUNTY AT AROUND 130 PM. 2 PEOPLE WERE INJURED IN NORTHERN BIBB COUNTY..AT STRATFORD ACADEMY.. WHEN LIGHTNING STRUCK A TREE AND RAN DOWN THE TREE STRICKING A 4TH GRADER AND A TEACHER. ANOTHER STUDENT WAS SUFFERING FROM SHOCK. A AMATUER RADIO OPERATOR REPORTED NICKLE SIZE HAIL IN SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTY AT 1230 PM EST. PERSONS IN CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA DURING THE AFTERNO.ON. VERY HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WIND..AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
Special weather statement, Mar 13, 2:00 PM EST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS, GA 200 PM EST THU MAR 13 1986 ..VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWEST GEORGIA.. AT 155 PM EST WEATHER RADARS INDICATED SEVERAL VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FORMING OVER SOUTHWEST GEORGIA..MAINLY IN AN AREA FROM COLQUITT NORTH TO MORGAN..DAWSON AND AMERICUS. OTHER ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING AROUND TIFTON AND LESLIE GEORGIA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO GROW IN THE VERY WARM AIR OVER SOUTHWEST GEORGIA..SOME OF THEM WILL PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AS WELL AS HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PEOPLE THROUGHOUT SOUTHWEST GEORGIA SHO:ULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THEIR WEATHER CONDITIONS CLOSELY FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS AND LISTEN FOR FURTHER UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Local storm report, Mar 13, 2:42 PM EST, 29 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 240 PM EST THU MAR 12 1986 DELAYED DAMAGE REPORTS FROM THIS MORNING FROM THE AREA SOUTH OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS SURVEYED THE DAMAGE IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS. 1 MILE SOUTH OF LUTHERSVILLE IN MERIWETHER COUNTY. ONE HOUSE SEVERELY DAMAGED, SEVERAL BARNS AND SHEDS DESTROYED, TREES AND UTILITY LINES DOWN. DAMAGE OCCURED AT 715 AM EST. DAMAGE DUE TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DOWNBURST WINDS ALONG A NARROW PATH. WINDS ESTIMATED AT 100 MPH. THERE IS ALSO AREAS OF SCATTERED DAMAGE AROUND NORTHERN MERIWETHER COUNTY WITH TREES AND POWER LINES DOWNED., BUT NOT AS SEVERE AS THE AREA JUST SOUTH OF LUTHERSVILLE 5 MILES SOUTH OF FAYETTEVILLE. DAMAGE OCCURRED AT 745 AM EST. TREES DOWN, DAMAGE TO ROOFS OF SEVERAL HOUSES. DAMAGE DUE TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DOWNBURST WINDS OF 80-90 MPH. ALSO SCATTERED AREAS OF DAMAGE WITH TREES DOWN IN AREAS SURROUNDING FAYETTEVIL LE, BUT NOT AS CONCENTRATED AS THE AREA 5 MILES SOUTH OF TOWN. CLAYTON COUNTY, LOVEJOY AREA. SCATTERED DAMAGE WITH TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN. WINDS DUE TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS OF 60-70 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 8:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 68 min |
| Mar 13, 8:49 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 56 min |
| Mar 13, 9:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 26 min |
| Mar 13, 12:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Monroe | 57 min |
| Mar 13, 4:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 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.