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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1996, 6:13 PM EDT for Jackson County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 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 7, 1996, 6:13 PM EDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1996, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 072213 SVRATL GAC157-072300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 613 PM EDT TUE MAY 7 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 NORTHEAST GEORGIA ...JACKSON COUNTY AT 607 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN PEACHTREE CITY INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JEFFERSON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS WILL TAKE THE STORM ACROSS JEFFERSON AROUND 645 PM. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...fDESTRUCTIVE 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, May 7, 3:01 PM EDT, 3 hours 12 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
TMSLocal storm report, May 7, 3:05 PM EDT, 3 hours 8 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
TMSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 56 min |
| May 7, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth | 33 min |
| May 7, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 29 min |
| May 7, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 31 min |
| May 7, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 37 min |
| May 7, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin | 42 min |
| May 7, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson | 39 min |
| May 7, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson, Madison | 41 min |
| May 7, 5:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Madison | 31 min |
| May 7, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 44 min |
| May 7, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke | 37 min |
| May 7, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Madison | 34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.