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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 26, 1996Jefferson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1996, 7:13 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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 26, 1996, 7:13 PM EDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 1996, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Jefferson County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 26, 7:25 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Louisville, 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 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 197 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 4:28 PM EDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

GAZ080-081-082-091-092-093-094-095-103-104-105-122-123-124-262130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
428 PM EDT FRI APR 26 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR SEVERAL
COUNTIES IN WESTCENTRAL GEORGIA...

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH...

BIBB...CRAWFORD...TAYLOR...MARION...WEBSTER...SCHLEY...MACON...
PEACH...HOUSTON...DOOLEY...SUMTER...TERRELL...RANDOLPH...AND CLAY.

AT 425 PM EDT A BAND OF SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED
TO DRIFT FARTHER SOUTH ACROSS GEORGIA. THEREFORE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF THE REST OF
SOUTHERN AND EASTCENTRAL GEORGIA.

STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

Local storm report, Apr 26, 6:30 PM EDT, 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
629 PM EDT FRI APR 26 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

605 PM     EDGEHILL                  GA   0.75 inch hail
4/26/96    GLASCOCK

Local storm report, Apr 26, 7:13 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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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 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, 1:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson, Washington	50 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, 7:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Jefferson	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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.