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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1988, 8:29 PM EDT for Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 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, 8:29 PM EDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1988, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 9:00 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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 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
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, 6:23 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
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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, 14 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.Local storm report, Jun 25, 8:24 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA
820 PM SAT JUN 25 1988
COUNTY........ CLARKE
SOURCE........ JACKSON EMC...AMATURE RADIO OPERATOR
TIME.......... 1935-2015 EDT SAT JUNE 25 1988
LOCATION...... ATHENS GEORGIA
TYPE STORM.... THUNDERSTORM
HAIL.......... PEA SIZE
DAMAGE........ SEVERAL LARGE TREES DOWN SOME ON CARS...POWER LINES DOWN.
INJURIES...... NONE REPORTED
WARNING....... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1935-2035 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, 8:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Oconee | 48 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, 1988Every 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.