Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1988, 5:47 PM EDT for Richmond County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 1988, 5:47 PM EDT (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1988, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Richmond 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 383 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1024 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KAGS 142148
SVRAGS
GAC245-142215-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA
547 PM EDT THU JUL 14 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
...EASTERN RICHMOND
AT 545 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN RICHMOND COUNTY
NEAR AUGUSTA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 15 MPH.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INS IDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.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, Jul 14, 2:42 PM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 242 PM EDT THU JUL 14 1988 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE BUILDING ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA... AT 235 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND NUMEROUS SHOWERS DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS SOUTHERN METROPOLITAN ATLANTA AND EXTENDED SOUTHEAST ACROSS PARTS OF HENRY.. BUTTS...NEWTON....AND JASPER COUNTIES. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR THE ALABAMA/GEORGIA STATE LINE WEST OF CEDARTOWN. THIS STORM WILL BE IN THE CEDARTOWN AREA BY 3 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WINDS AND LIFE THREATENING LIGHTNING. FOUR GEORGIANS HAVE BEEN KILLED BY LIGHTNING SO FAR IN 1988. PERSONS ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA SHOULD BE KEEP AN WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY AND TAKE PRECAUTIONS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM THREATENS THIS AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 3:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA 349 PM EDT THU JUL 14 1988 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON OVER GEORGIA... AT 345 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE ATLANTA METRO AREA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM SOUTHEAST COBB COUNTY AND EXTENDED ACROSS THE WESTERN PART OF THE METRO AREA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AFFECTING MUCH OF THE ATLANTA AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON RUSH HOUR. BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE SOME DRIVING PROBLEMS AND MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION AND DELAY TRAVEL IF POSSIBLE UNTIL THE STORMS MOVE OUT OF THE AREA. BESIDES THE HEAVY RAIN...THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS LIFE THREATENING LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. PERSONS ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA SHOULD KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY AND TAKE PRECAUTIONS WHE.N A THUNDERSTORM THREATENS.
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 4:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 440 PM EDT THU JULY 14 1988 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA... AT 425 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA MAINLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ROME TO ATHENS GEORGIA TO AIKEN SOUTH CAROLINA. IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF MONROE IN WALTON COUNTY. ELSEWHERE IN GEORGIA THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER THE ATLANTA AREA...10 MILES WEST OF WASHINGTON AND MIDWAY BETWEEN MILLEDFEVILLE AND DUBLIN. MOVEMENT SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALcERT FOR POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL.
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.