Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1987, 7:49 PM EDT for Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1987, 7:49 PM EDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1987, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Polk 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 830 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KATL 292349
SVRATL
GAC233-300045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
749 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
...POLK
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR MID WAY BETWEEN
CEDARTOWN AND ROCKMART. LITTLE 0R NO MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOO D ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.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, May 29, 2:19 PM EDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 215 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 1987 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA... AT 210 PM EDT THE ATHENS RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS LOCATED IN RABUN... TOWNS AND UNION COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOWED VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT BUT WERE GRADUALLY DRIFTING TO THE WEST. PERSONS THROUGHOUT NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD KEEP ALERT TO THE RAPID BUILDUP OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON. REMEMBER...SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...BRIEF GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIB1LY SOME SMALL HAIL.
Special weather statement, May 29, 3:39 PM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 330 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 1987 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA... AT 325 PM EDT THE ATHENS RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS LOCATED IN WHITE AND NORTHERN UNION COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOWED VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT BUT WERE GRADUALLY DRIFTING TO THE SOUTHWEST. PERSONS THROUGHOUT NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD KEEP ALERT TO THE RAPID BUILDUP OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED OVER PARTS OF NORTH GEORGIA...WEST NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHWEST SOUTH CAROLINA. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF PICKENS SOUTH CAROLINA AND A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED SOUTH OF BLACK MOUNTAIN NORTH CAROLINA. REMEMBER...SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE PbERIODS OF HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...BRIEF GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. ALL ACTIVITY SHOWED VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT.
Special weather statement, May 29, 4:45 PM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 435 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 1987 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED OVER THE NORTH HALF OF GEORGIA WITH THE STRONGEST LOCATED FROM NEAR ELIJAY GEORGIA NORTH TO NEAR MURPHY NORTH CAROLINA. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO INDICATED IN NORTHWEST SOUTH CAROLINA FROM NEAR GREENVILLE TO JUST EAST OF ANDERSON. ELSEWHERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA...EXTREME SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...NORTHWESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA AND TO THE WEST OF COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLINA. PERSONS IN NORTHERN GEORGIA AND ADJACENT AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT AND TO TAKE CAUTION IF NEEDED. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...BRIEF GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. ALL ACTIVITY SHOWED VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT.
Special weather statement, May 29, 4:47 PM EDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 435 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 1987 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED OVER THE NORTH HALF OF GEORGIA WITH THE STRONGEST LOCATED FROM NEAR ELIJAY GEORGIA NORTH TO NEAR MURPHY NORTH CAROLINA. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO INDICATED IN NORTHWEST SOUTH CAROLINA FROM NEAR GREENVILLE TO JUST EAST OF ANDERSON. ELSEWHERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA...EXTREME SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...NORTHWESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA AND TO THE WEST OF COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLINA. PERSONS IN NORTHERN GEORGIA AND ADJACENT AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT AND TO TAKE CAUTION IF NEEDED. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED.
Special weather statement, May 29, 6:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 615 PM EDT FRI MAY 29 1987 AT 600 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER FLOYD AND CALHOUN COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING HAIL...INTENSE LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. AT 600 PM THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM NEAR ROME TO NEAR CALHOUN. THE THUNDERSTORMS APPEARED TO BE DRIFTING SLOWLY TO THE NORTHWEST. RESIDENTS OF FLOYD...CALHOUN AND CHATTOOGA COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THESE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND TO THE POSSIBILITY OF STREET FLOODING OVER THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. RADAR ALSO SHOWED AN ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHWEST COBB COUNTY THAT MAY ALSO BE PRODUCING HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND INTENSE LIGHTNING.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987
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.