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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 107, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 13, 1996Taliaferro County, Wilkes County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 1996, 6:29 PM EDT for Taliaferro County, Wilkes County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 13, 1996, 6:29 PM EDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 1996, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Taliaferro County, GA, Wilkes County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 160 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KATL 132229
SVRATL
GAC265-317-132315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
629 PM EDT SAT APR 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...NORTHERN TALIAFERRO COUNTY...WILKES COUNTY
 
AT 625 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 5 MILE WEST
PHILOMATH IN SOUTHEAST OGLETHORPE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM
PRODUCED QUARTER SIZE HAIL NEAR WATKINSVILLE IN OCONEE COUNTY.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 13, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Gwinnett, Rockdale, Walton	53 min
Apr 13, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taylor	49 min
Apr 13, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan, Oconee, Walton	43 min
Apr 13, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford	37 min
Apr 13, 5:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Oconee	32 min
Apr 13, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Oglethorpe	53 min
Apr 13, 7:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Monroe	39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.