Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1987, 6:19 PM EDT for DeKalb County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 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
- Jul 6, 1987, 6:19 PM EDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1987, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties DeKalb County, GA, Fulton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 6:20 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Fulton, GA | |
| Jul 6, 6:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Fulton, 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 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, Jul 6, 3:41 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
TTAASP KAHN 061941 COR SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION FOR DATE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 330PM EDT MON JUL 6 1987 AT 330 PM EDT THUNDERSTORMS FORMING IN UNION , TOWNS, AND RABUN COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA... THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INCREASING DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS AND LAST INTO THE EVENING HOURS.. SOME OF THE LARGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS... DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ... STORMS WILL BE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AND SPREADING INTO OTHER COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. SEEK SHELTER IF A STORM APPROACHES YOUR AREA.....
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 3:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
TTAASP KAHN 061950 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION FOR DATE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 350PM EDT MON JUL 6 1987 AT 350 PM EDT THUNDERSTORMS IN UNION , TOWNS, AND RABUN COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA REACHING SOUTHWARD TO BANKS AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INCREASING DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS AND LAST INTO THE EVENING HOURS.. SOME OF THE LARGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS... DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ... STORMS WILL BE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AND SPREADING INTO OTHER COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. SEEK SHELTER IF A STORM APPROACHES YOUR AREA.....
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 4:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 445 PM EDT MON JUL 6 1987 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA... AT 425 PM RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM BLUE RIDGE TO ROME NORTHWESTWARD. STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN GILMER..PICKENS..BARTOW ..CALHOUN..CHATTOOGA AND FLOYD COUNTIES OF GEORGIA. THE STORMS WERE DEVELOPING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. SMALL HAIL..1/4 INCH DIAMETER..AND GUSTY WINDS WERE REPORTED FROM SUGAR VALLEY JUST NORTHWEST OF CALHOUN ABOUT 415 PM BUT NO DAMAGE OCCURRED. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS..LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING INTO THE EVENING HOURS. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER THE REST OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA MOVING EAST ABOUT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Local storm report, Jul 6, 4:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 453 PM EDT MON JUL 6 1987 HAM OPERATOR IN FOREST PARK REPORTED WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL THE SIZE OF TIP OF FINGER IN A STORM THERE WITHIN PAST HOUR. THE STORM MOVED EAST.
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 5:57 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 557 PM EDT MON JUL 6 1987 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA... AT 550 PM RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHWEST GEORGIA. AT THAT TIME STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN DEKALB COUNTY AND NEAR LAKE ALATOONA. THESE WERE PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND HIGH WINDS ALONG WITH FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS. THUNDERSTORMS APPEARED TO BE DEVELOPING IN RANDOM FASHION IN THE AFTERNOON HEAT. ANY THUNDERSTORM THAT FORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE CAPABLE OF HIGH WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTING AND SMALL HAIL...SO RESIDENTS OF NORTHWEST GEORGIA REMAIN ALERT AND SEEK SHELTER WHEN STORMS ARE NEARBY. THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING SOUTHWARD AND SHOULD WEAKEN AFTER SUNSET.
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 6:04 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
TTAASP KAHN 062204 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 600PM EDT MON JUL 6 1987 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA... AT 555 PM EDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY RADAR IN OCONEE...WALTON...MORGAN AND GREENE COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THE LARGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND POSS IBLE SMALL HAIL. IF A STORM APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall, Lumpkin, White | 61 min |
| Jul 6, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Newton, Walton | 61 min |
| Jul 6, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.