Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1996, 2:17 PM EDT for Jenkins County, Georgia. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report 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 26, 1996, 2:17 PM EDT (18:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1996, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jenkins County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 2:22 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Millen, 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 588 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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.
NWS Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 26, 9:52 AM EDT, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 9:52 AM EDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 945 AM EDT FRI APR 265 1996 AGREE THAT FCST LOOKS GENLY ON TRACK...HOWEVER IF YOU COULD MAKE CSTL PTLY CLDY INSTEAD OF MSTLY WOULD APPRECIA&TE...WE ARE MOSTLY SUNNY HERE NOW AND EXPECT CLDY ONLY LATER THIS AFTN. THANKS JFT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 2:05 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
SCZ040-042>045-047>050-501-502-GAZ087-088099>101-114>119-137>141- 501-270200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 200 PM EDT FRI APR 26 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8PM EDT... ...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EASTWARD ACROSS THE COASTAL COUNTIES... A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA IS TRIGGERING THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MIDLANDS. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH INTERIOR SECTIONS OF THE COASTAL COUNTIES BETWEEN 2 AND 4PM...AND THROUGH THE IMMEDIATE COASTAL COUNTIES BETWEEN 4 AND 6PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR AS THEY MOVE THROUGH. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH HIGHER WIND GUSTS POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...AND STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. JFT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 2:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Screven | 62 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.