Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1986, 7:44 PM EDT for Richmond County, Georgia. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 1986, 7:44 PM EDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1986, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Richmond 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 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -276 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Aug 2, 4:37 PM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS, GA 435 PM EDT SAT AUG 02 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 455 CONTINUES UNTIL 10 PM EDT FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTH GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... AT 425 PM EDT WEATHER RADARS INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS OVER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA..SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA..MAINLY IN THE COUNTIES NEAREST THE FLORIDA BORDER. NUMEROUS OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER MUCH OF NORTHERN FLORIDA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MPH. PERSONS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND CONTINUE LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 5:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS, GA 530 PM EDT SAT AUG 02 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 455 CONTINUES UNTIL 10 PM EDT FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTH GEORGIA..SOUTH ALABAMA AND NORTHERN FLORIDA... AT 525 PM EDT WEATHER RADARS WERE INDICATING WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS OVER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA..SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA..MAINLY FROM DOTHAN..BLAKELY AND ALBANY SOUTH TO THE FLORIDA BORDER. NUMEROUS OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHERN FLORIDA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MPH. PERSONS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND CONTINUE LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 6:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS, GA 635 PM EDT SAT AUG 02 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 455 CONTINUES UNTIL 10 PM EDT FOR LARGE PARTS OF SOUTH GEORGIA..SOUTH ALABAMA AND NORTHERN FLORIDA... AT 630 PM EDT WEATHER RADARS WERE INDICATING SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM BLAKELY AND NEWTON GEORGIA SOUTHEAST TO CAIRO AND THOMASVILLE. THE MOST INTENSE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE AROUND MEIGS AND PELHAM. OTHER SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER PORTIONS OF NORTH FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN OR CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND CONTINUE LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 7:36 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS, GA 735 PM EDT SAT AUG 02 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 455 CONTINUES UNTIL 10 PM EDT FOR LARGE PARTS OF SOUTH GEORGIA..SOUTH ALABAMA AND NORTHERN FLORIDA... AT 730 PM EDT WEATHER RADARS INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS OVER SOUTHWEST GEORGIA..MAINLY NEAR THE GEORGIA/FLORIDA BORDER FROM LAKE SEMINOLE AND BAINBRIDGE TO QUITMAN..ALSO IN WORTH AND MITCHELL COUNTIES NEAR CAMILLA AND BRIDGEBORO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN OR CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND CONTINUE LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FU"RTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair, Wheeler | 64 min |
| Aug 2, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Richmond | 51 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.