Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 1988, 8:22 PM EDT for Chattahoochee County, Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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, 8:22 PM EDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 1988, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chattahoochee County, GA, Muscogee 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, 8:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Muscogee, GA | |
| Apr 25, 8:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Chattahoochee, 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
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 1027 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Apr 25, 5:11 PM EDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 510 PM EDT MON APR 25 1988 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 84 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SEMINOLE...DECATUR... AND GRADY COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA. AT 505 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR DOTHAN ALABAMA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SVMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER NEWS MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 8:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Stewart | 23 min |
| Apr 25, 9:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Sumter, Webster | 47 min |
| Apr 25, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lee, Terrell | 33 min |
| Apr 25, 8:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Russell | 41 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.