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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 25, 1988Habersham County, Rabun County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1988, 4:16 PM EDT for Habersham County, Rabun County, Georgia. It was in force for 59 min. 1 report 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: Jun 25, 1988, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 1988, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Habersham County, GA, Rabun 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
Jun 25, 4:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Rabun, 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 91 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 405 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -206 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1030 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KAHN 252022
SVRAHN
GAC137-241-252115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
416 PM EDT SAT JUN 25 1988
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATHENS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
          ...NORTHWESTERN HABERSHAM...NORTHEASTERN RABUN
 
AT 415 PM EDT...ATHENS RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER
EXTREME NORTHEAST RABUN COUNTY AND EXTREME NORTHWEST HABERSHAM
COUNTY.  THESE STORMS WERE DRIFTING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT
5 MILES AN HOUR.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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

Local storm report, Jun 25, 1:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT...UPDATE TO 6/24/88
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
1340 PM EDT SAT JUN 25 1988

COUNTY..... LAURENS...FIRS 175
SOURCE..... RURUL ELECTRIC COOP (LITTLE OCMULGEE)
TIME......  AROUND 700 PM EDT
LOCATION... HWY 19 SOUTH OF DUBLIN
TYPE STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
DAMAGE..... SEVERAL LOCATIONS ALONG THE HWY...TREES AND POWER
            LINES DOWN. POWER JUST RESTORED THIS MORNING.
WARNINGS... SVR FROM 637 TO 715 PM EDT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Heard	50 min
Jun 25, 5:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	44 min
Jun 25, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Monroe	61 min
Jun 25, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	30 min
Jun 25, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts	38 min
Jun 25, 7:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1988 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

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.