Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1988, 4:34 PM EDT for Gwinnett County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1988, 4:34 PM EDT (20:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1988, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gwinnett 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1391 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 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, Jun 18, 2:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 210 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 1988 THUNDERSTORMS ARE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA. WITH ABUNDANCE OF HEAT THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE RAPIDLY WITH SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING STRONG SURFACE WINDS...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. AT 2PM EDT THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONFINED TO THE NORTH SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST...NORTH OF A LINE FROM TOCCOA TO GAINSVILLE. HOWEVER... THE STORMS WILL GRADUALLY MOVE SOUTH DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. PEOPLE IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE STORMS AND SEEK SAFE SHELTER AS THEY MOVE INTO THEIR AREA. BOATERS ON NORTHEAST GEORGIA LAKES SHOULD MAINTAIN A CLOSE WATCH AND SEEK SAFE HARBOR WELL AHEAD OF THE APPROACH OF THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 3:37 PM EDT, 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 335 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 1988 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 230 IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...BANKS...FRANKLIN...HABERSHAM...HALL...LUMPKIN... RABUN...STEPHENS...TOWNS...UNION AND WHITE. THIS INCLUDES THE CITES OF TOCCOA...CORNELIA AND GAINSVILLE. AT 335 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH GEORGIA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND EAST TENNESSEE. THE THUNDERSTORMS IN GEORGIA WERE MAIN TO THE NORTH OF A LINE FROM CARROLLTON TO TOCCOA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA. MOVEMENT NORTHEAST 20 MILES AN HOUR.
Local storm report, Jun 18, 4:05 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
405 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 1988
COUNTY........ UNION COUNTY GEORGIA
SOURCE........ CD OFFICE BLAIRSVILLE GEORGIA
TIME.......... 310-330 PM EDT...1910-1930Z
LOCATION...... BLAIRSVILLE GEORGIA
TYPE STORM.... THUNDERSTORM WITH WINDS ESTIMATED 40 PLUS
HAIL.......... NICKLE SIZE
DAMAGE........ NONE REPORTED
INJURIES...... NONE REPORTED
WARNING....... SEVERE TSTM VALID 300-345 PM EDT...1900-1945Z
]The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Union | 44 min |
| Jun 18, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 69 min |
| Jun 18, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Walton | 38 min |
| Jun 18, 1:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bledsoe | 52 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.