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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 25, 1988Carroll County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 25, 1988, 3:55 PM EDT for Carroll County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 25, 1988, 3:55 PM EDT (19:55 UTC)
Expired
Apr 25, 1988, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Carroll 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

Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 211 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1988-04-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Centreville/Bibb, AL at 12:00Z on 1988-04-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 25, 3:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll, Douglas25 min
Apr 25, 3:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBibb, Monroe53 min
Apr 25, 3:17 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCCarroll, Coweta, Fulton43 min
Apr 25, 3:38 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCClayton, Fayette37 min
Apr 25, 3:59 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCCarroll31 min
Apr 25, 4:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHenry, Rockdale23 min
Apr 25, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMorgan, Newton, Walton66 min
Apr 25, 4:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta, Fayette, Fulton33 min
Apr 25, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHaralson, Paulding, Polk25 min
Apr 25, 4:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLamar, Upson25 min
Apr 25, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMonroe33 min
Apr 25, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether, Troup30 min
Apr 25, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHeard30 min
Apr 25, 5:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Douglas, Fulton27 min
Apr 25, 5:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb27 min
Apr 25, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton, DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale30 min
Apr 25, 5:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCEmanuel65 min
Apr 25, 5:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether, Pike, Upson28 min
Apr 25, 6:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLamar, Upson24 min
Apr 25, 6:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBibb, Monroe64 min

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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.