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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 20, 1996Peach County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 1996, 6:10 PM EDT for Peach County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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 20, 1996, 6:10 PM EDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 1996, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Peach County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 109 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -165 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 680 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 227 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 202209
SVRATL
GAC225-202245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
610 PM EDT SAT APR 20 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...PEACH COUNTY
 
AT 606 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR FORT
VALLEY MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
 
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.

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 20, 12:33 PM EDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1230 PM EDT SAT APR 20 1996

TIME         COUNTY       EVENT

12 NOON       DADE        SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
    V                                            AT THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE
                                                IN TRENTON, GA.

Special weather statement, Apr 20, 4:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

GAZ049-050-056-058>060-067>072-078-079-202130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
435 PM EDT SAT APR 20 1996

AT 426 PM EDT A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR
GREENSBORO IN GREENE COUNTY THROUGH BUTTS COUNTY TO NORTHWEST
HARRIS NEAR HAMILTON. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD EXPECT WINDS GUSTING
TO 40 TO 450 MILES AN HOUR...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT FOR MOST OF THE
NORTHERN HALF OF GEORGIA.

KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, Apr 20, 5:38 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-091>
098-103>113-202215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
530 PM EDT SAT APR 20 1996

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 202 CANCELLED FOR PARTS OF NORTHERN GEORGIA

AT 530 PM... THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED NORTH OF A LINE EXTENDING
FROM WARRENTON THROUGH MCDONOUGH TO LAGRANGE...INCLUDING ATLANTA AND
ATHENS.

THE REMAINDER OF THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR COUNTIES FROM
TALBOT TO GLASCOCK INCLUDING THE CITY OF MACON.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA AND COULD STILL
PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER INCLUDING DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL UP TO ONE
INCH.
DH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 20, 10:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Dade, Walker, Whitfield	52 min
Apr 20, 11:44 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Dade, Walker	31 min
Apr 20, 2:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Polk	50 min
Apr 20, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Paulding	53 min
Apr 20, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll	43 min
Apr 20, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Cobb	47 min
Apr 20, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	53 min
Apr 20, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	45 min
Apr 20, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Coweta, Fayette	49 min
Apr 20, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston, Twiggs	27 min
Apr 20, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens	52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.