Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1988, 7:16 PM EDT for Baldwin County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 1988, 7:16 PM EDT (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1988, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baldwin 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1480 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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 KMCN 172315
SVRMCN
GAC009-180000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MACON GA
716 PM EDT FRI JUN 17 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MACON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
...BALDWIN
AT 610 PM MILLEDGEVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL
IN THE CITY. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAUSING THE HAIL WAS MOVING EAST
AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
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 POSSIBLE 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, Jun 17, 3:41 PM EDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 340 PM EDT FRI JUN 17 1988 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHEST GEORGIA MOUNTAINS... AT 330 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER TOCCOA GEORGIA. MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. PERSONS IN STEPHENS COUNTY OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUNS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING FOR THE NEXT HOUR. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING FROM EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA INTO NORTHWEST SOUTH CAROLINA AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOSTLY FROM THE NORTHEAST GEORGIA MOUNTAINS INTO THE WESTERN CAROLINAS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 5:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
TTAASP KAHN 172103 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 450 PM EDT FRI JUN 17 1988 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA... AT 435 PM EDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS..A FEW VERY STRONG..WERE FORMING OVER THE AREA ALONG AND UP TO 50 MILES EATHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM LA GRANGE TO SHELBY NORTH CAROLINA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER NORTHWEST SOUTH CAROLINA 5 MILES EAST OF GREENVILLE AND OVER SPARTANBURG. IN GEORGIA..VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST WEST OF ATHENS.. OVER FORSYTH AND OVER LAKE SINCLAIR. THESE STORMS WERE MOVVNG TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN..DANGEROUS LIGHTING AND SMALL HAIL. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 5:04 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
TTAASP KAHN 172104 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 450 PM EDT FRI JUN 17 1988 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA... AT 435 PM EDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS..A FEW VERY STRONG..WERE FORMING OVER THE AREA ALONG AND UP TO 50 MILES EATHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM LA GRANGE TO SHELBY NORTH CAROLINA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER NORTHWEST SOUTH CAROLINA 5 MILES EAST OF GREENVILLE AND OVER SPARTANBURG. IN GEORGIA..VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST WEST OF ATHENS.. OVER FORSYTH AND OVER LAKE SINCLAIR. THESE STORMS WERE MOVVNG TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN..DANGEROUS LIGHTING AND SMALL HAIL.
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 5:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
TTAASP KAHN 172144 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 540 PM EDT FRI JUN 17 1988 AT 530 PM EDT...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED JUST SOUTH OF SPARTANBURG SOUTH CAROLINA AND OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA 5 MILES WEST OF LAKE JACKSON AND OVER LAKE SINCLAIR. A CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED OVER NORTHWEST GEORGIA BETWEEN BLUE RIDGE AND ELLIJAY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HO,UR AND MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL.
Local storm report, Jun 17, 7:06 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATHENS GA 705 PM EDT FRI JUN 17 1988 COUNTY........ WALTON COUNTY GEORGIA SOURCE........ WKUN RADIO MONROE GEORGIA TIME.......... 500-505 PM EDT...2100-2105Z LOCATION...... MONROE GEORGIA TYPE STORM.... THUNDERSTORM WITH WINDS ESTIMATED 50-55 MPH HAIL.......... NONE REPORTED DAMAGE........ TREES DOWN ON 10 STREETS...TREES DOWN ON CARS... INJURIES...... TWO INJURED WHEN TREE FEEL ON CAR WARNING....... NONE ]
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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.