Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 4, 1986, 8:48 PM EDT for Bibb County, Houston County, Peach County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 min. 2 reports 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
- Sep 4, 1986, 8:48 PM EDT (00:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 1986, 9:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bibb County, GA, Houston County, GA, Peach 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 9:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Bibb, GA | |
| Sep 4, 9:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Houston, 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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCN 050048 SVRMCN GAC021-255-153-050145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 848 PM EDT THU SEP 4 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF CENTRAL GEORGIA...BIBB...PEACH AND HOUSTON AT 840 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MACON DRIFTING SLOWLY SOUTH. THIS THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCEK WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MILES AND HOUR. FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW DRAINAGE AREAS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED.
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, Sep 4, 8:27 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA 825 PM EDT THU SEP 4 1986 AT 820 PM A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS IN PROGRESS AT THE LEWIS WILSON AIRPORT IN MACON, GEORGIA. OVER AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN A TWENTY MINUTE PERIOD SINCE THE HEAVY RAIN BEGAN. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS DRIFTING VERY SLOWLY SOUTH. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS NEAR DRAINAGE AND RUNOFF AREAS. MOTORIST SHOULD SLO;W AND DRIVE WITH CAUTION WITH STANDING WATER ON ROADWAYS...AND AVOID DRIVING THROUGH DEEP WATER IN LOW AREAS.
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.