Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1988, 7:00 PM EDT for Mitchell County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 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
- May 10, 1988, 7:00 PM EDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1988, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mitchell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 7:30 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Mitchell, GA | |
| May 10, 7:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Mitchell, 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
Apalachicola Mun, FL (KAQQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 1152 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 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, May 10, 3:42 PM EDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
341 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 1988
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT FOR
PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA AND NORTH FLORIDA. THE COUNTIES
EFFECTED IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA ARE DECATUR...GRADY...SEMINOLE AND
THOMAS. THE COUNTIES EFFECTED IN THE NORTH FLORIDA ARE CALHOUN
...GADSDEN...JACKSON AND LIBERTY.
AT 330 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED NO SIGNIFICANT SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS
OVER SOUTHWEST GEORGIA AND NORTH FLORIDA.
EVEN THOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER IS BEING CURRENTLY DETECTED THE THREAT
FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS REMAINS.
[ ]Special weather statement, May 10, 5:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 520 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 1988 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA AND NORTH FLORIDA. THE COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA ARE DECATUR...GRADY...SEMINOLE AND THOMAS THE COUNTIES IN NORTH FLORIDA ARE CALHOUN...GADSDEN...JACKSON... AND LIBERTY. AT 520 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EXTEDNING FROM JUST NORTHEAST OF CRESTVIEW FL TO NEAR COTTONWOOD AL THEN TO BAINBRIDGE GA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD STAY TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LISTEN TO YOUR LOCAL TV STATION FOUR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 10, 6:06 PM EDT, 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 605 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 1988 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA AND NORTH FLORIDA. THE COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST GEORGIA ARE DECATUR...GRADY...SEMINOLE AND THOMAS. THE COUNTIES IN NORTH FLORIDA ARE CALHOUN...GADSDEN...JACKSON... AND LIBERTY. AT 605 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EXTEDNING FROM JUST NORTHEAST OF CRESTVIEW FL TO NEAR COTTONDALE FL TO JUST SOUTH OF DONALDSONVILLE GA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITnIONS AND TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IF NECESARY. STAY TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL TV STATIONS FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton | 59 min |
| May 10, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Escambia | 59 min |
| May 10, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Washington | 58 min |
| May 10, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Okaloosa, Walton, Washington | 56 min |
| May 10, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Santa Rosa | 56 min |
| May 10, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Dougherty | 54 min |
| May 10, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Tift | 53 min |
| May 10, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt | 39 min |
| May 10, 7:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt | 34 min |
| May 10, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 64 min |
| May 10, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Russell | 46 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.