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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 29, 1996Crawford County, Upson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1996, 7:36 PM EDT for Crawford County, Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 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 29, 1996, 7:36 PM EDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 1996, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Crawford County, GA, Upson County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 72 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 292336
SVRATL
GAC079-293-300015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
736 PM EDT MON APR 29 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...CRAWFORD COUNTY
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...EASTERN UPSON COUNTY
 
AT 735 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE CRAWFORD/UPSON
COUNTY LINE NEAR THE FLINT RIVER. THIS STORM IS 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.

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 29, 7:30 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
722 PM EDT MON APR 29 1996

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

539 PM     MADRAS                    GA   WIND DAMAGE
4/29/96    COWETA

539 PM     NEWNAN                    GA   WIND DAMAGE
4/29/96    COWETA

605 PM     FULTON COUNTY AP          GA   60 MPH TSTM GUST
4/29/96    FULTON

645 PM     UNADILLA                  GA   WIND DAMAGE
4/29/96    DOOLY

645 PM     ELKO                      GA   1.00 inch hail
4/29/96    HOUSTON

645 PM     BONAIRE                   GA   WIND DAMAGE
4/29/96    HOUSTON

650 PM     SMYRNA                    G"A   WIND DAMAGE
4/29/96    COBB                           TREES DOWN ALONG COBB PKWY

650 PM     ROSWELL                   GA   WIND DAMAGE
4/29/96    FULTON                         TREES DOWN ALONG OLD ELLIS RD

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, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Houston	29 min
Apr 29, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fayette, Fulton	25 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.