Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 1988, 7:52 PM EDT for Lincoln County, Georgia. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 1988, 7:52 PM EDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 1988, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1324 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 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 042358 COR
SVRAGS
GAC181-050045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA
752 PM EDT WED MAY 4 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
...SOUTHERN LINCOLN
AT 750 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN
LINCOLN COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 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 INSIDE 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, May 4, 5:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 600 PM EDT WED MAY 4 1988 AT 550 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN MADISON AND ELBERT COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. HALF INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED IN ELBERTON GEORGIA AT 545 PM EDT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. ALSO A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED ALONG THE GREENE AND OCONEE COUNTY LINE. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING INTO OGLETHORPE COUNTY WITHIN THE HOUR. PERSONS IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA CAN EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL AS THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVES ACROSS THE AREA WITHIN THE HOUR. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT THAT WILL BE MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA THIS EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock | 45 min |
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.