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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 25, 1988Greene County, Oconee County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1988, 8:17 PM EDT for Greene County, Oconee County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 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, 8:17 PM EDT (00:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 1988, 9:05 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Greene County, GA, Oconee 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, 8:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Greene, 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 27 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: 1135 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1239 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 25, 5:47 PM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 6:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 25, 6:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 7:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 7:30 PM EDT, 47 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
727 PM EDT SAT JUNE 25 1988

AT 725 PM EDT...A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED OVER
NORTHEAST GEORGIA.  THIS LINE OF STORMS EXTENDED EAST FROM HALL COUNTY
...ACROSS JACKSON AND MADISON COUNTIES INTO ELBERT COUNTY.  THESE STORMS
WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING ACROSS BARROW...
CLARK...OCCONEE AND OGLETHORPE COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTING AND SMALL HAIL.

Local storm report, Jun 25, 8:15 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE ATLANTA GA
815 PM EDT SAT JUN 25 1988

REPORTS ON THUNDERSTORMS THAT OCCURRED IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
THIS AFTERNOON...

HEARD COUNTY...........FRANKLIN POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED TREES
                       DOWN AND ONE LIGHTNING FATALITY AROUND
                       510 PM EDT.

IN MERIWETHER COUNTY...WOODBURY POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED POWER
                       LINES DOWN IN THE COMMUNITY OF GAY AROUND
                       534 PM EDT.

IN COWETA COUNTY.......COWETA SHERIFF'S OFFICE REPORTED TREES
                       DOWN MAINLY IN THE NORTHERN END OF THE
                       COUNTY BETWEEN 630 PM AND 700 PM EDT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 8:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley	68 min
Jun 25, 8:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	46 min
Jun 25, 9:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	47 min
Jun 25, 9:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Jones	52 min
Jun 26, 3:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley	69 min
Jun 26, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Douglas	31 min
Jun 26, 3:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Dooly	27 min
Jun 26, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Warren	41 min
Jun 26, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	54 min
Jun 26, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	68 min
Jun 26, 5:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson	54 min
Jun 26, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones	62 min
Jun 26, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Screven	50 min
Jun 26, 7:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Monroe	57 min
Jun 26, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Aiken	47 min
Jun 26, 7:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Edgefield	49 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.