Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1988, 8:42 PM EDT for Aiken County, South Carolina. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 1988, 8:42 PM EDT (00:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1988, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Aiken 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 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KAGS 240044
SVRAGS
SCC003-240130-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA
842 PM EDT MON MAY 23 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUGUSTA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN WEST CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
...NORTHEASTERN AIKEN
AT 840 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHEAST
AIKEN COUNTY SOUTH CAROLINA. THIS STORM WAS JUST SOUTHWEST OF PERRY
AND MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSDSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.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 23, 8:21 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 820 PM EDT MON MAY 23 1988 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 166 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT FOR PARTS OF SOUTH AND EAST GEORGIA...SOUTH AND NORTH CAROLINA... AT 816 PM EDT WEATHER RADARS NO LONGER INDICATED ANY RAIN OR THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. HOWEVER...SEVERAL VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FARTHER EAST...GENERALLY IN AN AREA FROM FITZGERALD TO SAVANNAH. MOVEMENT WAS STILL NORTHEAST. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA UNTIL MIDNIGHT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATION'S FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, May 23, 8:39 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 820 PM EDT MON MAY 23 1988 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 166 HAS BEEN CANCELLED AS OF 825 PM EDT... AT 823 PM COLUMBUS WE?ATHER RADAR NO LONGER INDICATED ANY RAIN OR THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...AND CONDITIONS NO LONGER APPEAR FAVORABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN THOSE AREAS THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, May 23, 8:40 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS GA 839 PM EDT MON MAY 23 1988 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 166 HAS BEEN CANCELLED AS OF 825 PM EDT... @AT 835 PM COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR NO LONGER INDICATED ANY RAIN OR THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...AND CONDITIONS NO LONGER APPEAR FAVORABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN THOSE AREAS THIS EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 5:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Aiken | 52 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.