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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 15, 1996Crisp County, Wilcox County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1996, 1:42 AM EDT for Crisp County, Wilcox County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 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 15, 1996, 1:42 AM EDT (05:42 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 1996, 2:30 AM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Crisp County, GA, Wilcox County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:43 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 15, 2:00 AM EDT	Hail 0.75	Abbeville, 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2287 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 150542
SVRATL
GAC081-315-150630-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
142 AM EDT MON APR 15 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...CRISP COUNTY...WILCOX COUNTY
 
AT 140 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE CRISP..TURNER COUNTY LINE NEAR ARABI MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
 
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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 9:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Troup	46 min
Apr 15, 12:18 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Schley, Sumter	42 min
Apr 15, 12:18 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Webster	42 min
Apr 15, 2:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Pulaski	45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.