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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 7, 1996Oglethorpe County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1996, 5:08 PM EDT for Oglethorpe County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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
May 7, 1996, 5:08 PM EDT (21:08 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 1996, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Oglethorpe County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 7, 5:30 PM EDTHail 1Vesta, 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 143 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1996-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 200 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1996-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
200 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-171 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1193 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 072108
SVRATL
GAC221-072145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
508 PM EDT TUE MAY 7 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN OGLETHORPE COUNTY
 
AT 505 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
10 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON MOVING EASTNORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
THIS STORM IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.
 
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

Special weather statement, May 7, 11:54 AM EDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-
091>098-103>113-072200-

NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1150 AM EDT TUE MAY 7 1996

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

AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING EAST FROM NORTHERN ALABAMA WILL LIFT
UNSTABLE AIR OVER NORTHERN GEORGIA TO CAUSE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...
SOME POZSSIBLY SEVERE... MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM ATLANTA TO ATHENS.

SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PEOPLE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR
POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON.

WRS
Local storm report, May 7, 3:01 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
300 PM EDT MON MAY 6 1996

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

338 PM     5N WASHINGTON             GA   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED
5/6/96     WILKES                         BY SHERIFFS DEPT

400 PM     HOLLEY                    GA   QUARTER SIZED HAIL REPORTED
5/6/96     MURRAY                         BY FIRE DEPT

420 PM     15N LEXINGTON             GA   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED
5/6/96     OGLETHORPE                     BY STATE PARK RANGER

440 PM     8NW WINDER                GA   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
5/6/96     BARROW                         SPOTTER NEAR HWY 124

430PM      JEFFERSON                 GA   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
5/6/96     JACKSON                        JEFFERSON POLICE

425 PM     COMER                     GA   QUARTER SIZED HAIL REPORTED
5/6/96     MADISON                        BY OFF DUTY DISPATCHER

550 PM     CAVE SPRINGS              GA   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
5/6/96     FLOYD                          BY CAVE SPRINGS POLICE

TMS
Local storm report, May 7, 3:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FOR DATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
305 PM EDT TUE MAY 7 1996

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

338 PM     5N WASHINGTON             GA   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED
5/6/96     WILKES                         BY SHERIFFS DEPT

400 PM     HOLLEY                    GA   QUARTER SIZED HAIL REPORTED
5/6/96     MURRAY                         BY FIRE DEPT

420 PM     15N LEXINGTON             GA   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED
5/6/96     OGLETHORPE                     BY STATE PARK RANGER

440 PM     8NW WINDER                GA   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
5/6/96     BARROW                         SPOTTER NEAR HWY 124

430PM      JEFFERSON                 GA   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
5/6/96     JACKSON                        JEFFERSON POLICE

425 PM     COMER                     GA   QUARTER SIZED HAIL REPORTED
5/6/96     MADISON                        BY OFF DUTY DISPATCHER

550 PM     CAVE SPRINGS              GA   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
5/6/96     FLOYD                          BY CAVE SPRINGS POLICE

TMS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 3:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDade, Walker56 min
May 7, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee, Forsyth33 min
May 7, 4:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWhitfield29 min
May 7, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCForsyth31 min
May 7, 5:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLumpkin42 min
May 7, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJackson39 min
May 7, 5:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJackson, Madison41 min
May 7, 5:59 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCMadison31 min
May 7, 6:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJackson47 min
May 7, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCWilkes44 min
May 7, 6:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClarke37 min
May 7, 7:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMadison34 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.