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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 6, 1996Gwinnett County, Hall County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1996, 5:38 PM EDT for Gwinnett County, Hall County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 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: May 6, 1996, 5:38 PM EDT (21:38 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 1996, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 1203 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 941 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -96 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 062139
SVRATL
GAC139-135-062230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
538 PM EDT MON MAY 6 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...HALL COUNTY
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...NORTHERN GWINNETT COUNTY
 
AT 535 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS INDICATING SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM LAKE LANIER SOUTH TO SUWANNE. THE STORMS
WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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, May 6, 11:46 AM EDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before

GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-
091>098-103>113-062200-

NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1145 AM EDT MON MAY 6 1996

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA.

A SLOW MOVING FRONT ACROSS TENNESSEE WILL CONTINUE DRIFTING SOUTH INTO
EXTREME NORTH GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL ALLOW
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN THE AFTERNOON HEAT.

THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MORE LIKELY OVER NORTH GRORGIA BUT SOME OF THE
STORMS COULD DEVELOP OR MOVE INTO CENTRAL GEORGIA AS FAR SOUTH AS A
LINE EXTENDING FROM HAMILTON TO PERRY TO SOPERTON.

SVPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE SO SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT
IN CASE NEEDED.
DH
BDL

Local storm report, May 6, 12:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1239 AM EDT MON MAY 6 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
 
1235 PM    HELEN                     GA   1.00 inch hail
5/6/96     WHITE

Local storm report, May 6, 12:59 PM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1239 AM EDT MON MAY 6 1996

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

12^35 PM    HELEN                     GA   1.00 INCH HAIL REPORTED BY
5/6/96     WHITE                          WHITE COUNTY 911

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 12:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	White	29 min
May 6, 1:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	White	27 min
May 6, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lumpkin	37 min
May 6, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Murray	37 min
May 6, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Walker	39 min
May 6, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilkes	33 min
May 6, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Madison	30 min
May 6, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Murray, Whitfield	41 min
May 6, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	31 min
May 6, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Madison, Oglethorpe	30 min
May 6, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Jackson	40 min
May 6, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall	31 min
May 6, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Forsyth, Fulton	41 min
May 6, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd	34 min
May 6, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jackson	32 min
May 6, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow	31 min
May 6, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke	35 min
May 6, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	41 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.