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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 13, 1986Dodge County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 1986, 4:03 PM EST for Dodge County, Georgia. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 13, 1986, 4:03 PM EST (21:03 UTC)
Expired
Mar 13, 1986, 5:00 PM EST
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Dodge 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

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 198 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1986-03-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 391 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1986-03-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 373 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 13, 8:37 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWalton68 min
Mar 13, 8:49 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow, Jackson56 min
Mar 13, 9:34 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMorgan26 min
Mar 13, 12:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrawford, Monroe57 min
Mar 13, 3:11 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTreutlen64 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.