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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 132, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1996, 1:40 PM EDT for Johnson County, Washington County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 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 26, 1996, 1:40 PM EDT (17:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1996, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Johnson County, GA, Washington County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 650 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 261812 SVRATL GAC167-303-261830- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING....REISSUE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 140 PM EDT FRI APR 26 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...JOHNSON COUNTY...SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 135 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF TOOMSBORO IN EASTERN WILKINSON COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MO,VE 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.
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
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 11:28 AM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-262200- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1130 AM EDT FRI APR 26 1996 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY. THE SLIGHT RISK AREA COVERS THAT PORTION OF HTE STATE SOUTH OF A TOCCOA TO CANTO TO BUCHANAN LINE. A COLD FRONT LOCATED IN EAST TENNESSEE THIS MORNING WILL PUSH INTO NORTHWEST GEORGIA BY EARLY AFTERNOON. THE AIR AHEAD OF THE FRONT IS MOIST AND UNSTABLE ENOUGH FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO OCCUR. AS AN UPPER LEVEL IMPULSE MOVES INTO THE STATE A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOO]N. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD MONITOR LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 12:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
GAZ061-062-072>076-078>084-091>096-105-107-261730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 12335 PM EDT FRI APR 26 1996 A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM COLUMBUS GEORGIA THROUGH MARION...TAYLOR...CRAWFORD COUNTIES INTO BIBB COUNTY AND EXTENDING TO NEAR AGUSTA GEORGIA IS MOVING SOUTHEAST WITH INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO 1 INCH AN HOUR WHICH MAY PRODUCE BRIEF LOCALIZED FLOODING. ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS...GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND SMALL HAIL. PEOPLE IN CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS. MPM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 1:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Houston, Twiggs | 42 min |
| Apr 26, 1:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Laurens, Wilkinson | 54 min |
| Apr 26, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Treutlen | 44 min |
| Apr 26, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Washington | 48 min |
| Apr 26, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 30 min |
| Apr 26, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 32 min |
| Apr 26, 7:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 39 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.