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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1996, 6:31 PM EDT for Houston County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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 29, 1996, 6:31 PM EDT (22:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 1996, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Houston County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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 29, 6:45 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Elko, 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 644 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 292231 SVRATL GAC153-292300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 631 PM EDT MON APR 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...HOUSTON COUNTY AT 630 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHERN HOUSTON COUNTY ALONG HIGHWAY 41. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PEOPLE NEAR THE CITY OF PERRY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR SEVERE WEATHER BETWEEN 635 PM AND 645 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUC(TIVE 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.
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 29, 12:47 PM EDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before
GAZ075-076-084>086-096>098-107>113-291845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1245 PM EDT MON APR 29 1996 THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS TO 45 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND SMALL HAIL. AT 1245 PM THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER EMANUEL...JOHNSON... ...WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PEOPLE IN CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO RESPOND IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 10:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 46 min |
| Apr 29, 10:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 46 min |
| Apr 29, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 62 min |
| Apr 29, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike | 30 min |
| Apr 29, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 39 min |
| Apr 29, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 27 min |
| Apr 29, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta | 31 min |
| Apr 29, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 37 min |
| Apr 29, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 51 min |
| Apr 29, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 43 min |
| Apr 29, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Fulton | 25 min |
| Apr 29, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Upson | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.