Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 25, 1988, 3:38 PM EDT for Clayton County, Fayette County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 1988, 3:38 PM EDT (19:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 1988, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clayton County, GA, Fayette County, GA
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 3:40 PM EDT | Hail 4.5 | Fayette, GA | |
| Apr 25, 3:55 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Clayton, GA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 266 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
- 1827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 437 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KATL 251937
TORATL
GAC063-113-252015-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA GA
338 PM EDT MON APR 25 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ATLANTA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
...CLAYTON...FAYETTE
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED JUST
SOUTHWEST OF FAIRBURN AT 335 PM. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
GOLFBALL SIZE HAILL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. RADAR CONTINUES
TO PRODUCE STRONG INDICATIONS OF A POSSIBLE TORNADO WITH THIS STORM.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH? OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas | 25 min |
| Apr 25, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Monroe | 53 min |
| Apr 25, 3:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Fulton | 43 min |
| Apr 25, 3:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll | 35 min |
| Apr 25, 3:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll | 31 min |
| Apr 25, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Rockdale | 23 min |
| Apr 25, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Newton, Walton | 66 min |
| Apr 25, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Fulton | 33 min |
| Apr 25, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 25 min |
| Apr 25, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Upson | 25 min |
| Apr 25, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 33 min |
| Apr 25, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 30 min |
| Apr 25, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 30 min |
| Apr 25, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas, Fulton | 27 min |
| Apr 25, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 27 min |
| Apr 25, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale | 30 min |
| Apr 25, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 65 min |
| Apr 25, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Upson | 28 min |
| Apr 25, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Upson | 24 min |
| Apr 25, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Monroe | 64 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.