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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 26, 1988Edgefield County, South Carolina

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1988, 7:41 PM EDT for Edgefield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 1988, 7:41 PM EDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 1988, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Edgefield County, SC

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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 1117 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -152 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1070 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 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 26, 4:07 PM EDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before

TTAASP KATL 262007
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
405 PM EDT SUN JUN 26 1988

 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA...MOVING
TOWARDS THE ATLANTA METRO AREA...

AT 405 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN ATLANTA WAS SHOWING
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM NEAR ROSWELL IN NORTH FULTON
COUNTY SOUTH ALONG THE CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER...INTO CARROLL AND COWETA
COUNTIES.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO THE ATLANTA METROPOLITAN DURING
THE NEXT HOUR.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS
AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS AS THEY MOVE
THROUGH THE AREA.

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 5:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 6:41 PM EDT, 1 hour before

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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 7:10 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 7:32 PM EDT, 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 7:40 PM EDT, 1 minute before

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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, 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.