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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 13, 1996Bibb County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 1996, 9:22 PM EDT for Bibb County, Georgia. It was in force for 53 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, 9:22 PM EDT (01:22 UTC)
Expired
Apr 13, 1996, 10:15 PM EDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Bibb County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 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 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 97 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1996-04-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 316 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1996-04-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
316 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 140123
SVRATL
GAC021-140215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
922 PM EDT SAT APR 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...BIBB COUNTY
 
AT 920 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NEAR LAKE TOBESOFKEE IN WESTERN BIBB COUNTY MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM HAS ALREADY PRODUCED DIME SIZED HAIL IN
WESTERN BIBB COUNTY.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
 
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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

Local storm report, Apr 13, 7:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
721 PM EDT SAT APR 13 1996

TIME         COUNTY       EVENT

526 PM EDT   WALTON       OVER MONROE, GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
PUBLIC
Local storm report, Apr 13, 7:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
724 PM EDT SAT APR 13 1996

TIME         COUNTY       EVENT

551 PM EDT   MORGAN       OVER NORTH MORGAN COUNTY DEPUTY REPORTED
QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
Local storm report, Apr 13, 7:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
726 PM EDT SAT APR 13 1996

TIME         COUNTY       EVENT

602 PM EDT   TAYLOR       QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN THE NORTH PART
                          OF THE COUNTY BY THE PUBLIC.
Local storm report, Apr 13, 7:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
728 PM EDT SAT APR 13 1996

TIME         COUNTY       EVENT

620 PM EDT   OCONEE       QUARTER SIZE HAIL TWO INCHES DEEP REPORTED BY
                          CIVIL DEFENSE NEAR WATKINSVILLE
Local storm report, Apr 13, 8:31 PM EDT, 51 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
830 PM EDT SAT APR 13 1996

TIME         COUNTY       EVENT

821 PM EDT   BIBB         DIME SIZE HAIL JUST WEST OF MACON AT
                v          THIS TIME REPORTED BY THE COUNTY EMA.

JB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 13, 8:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBibb, Jones50 min
Apr 13, 8:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTwiggs32 min
Apr 13, 10:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBibb26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1996Every 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.