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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 7, 1996Sumter County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1996, 10:16 PM EDT for Sumter County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 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, 10:16 PM EDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 1996, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Sumter County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:15 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 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 466 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 080216
SVRATL
GAC261-080300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1016 PM EDT TUE MAY 7 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...SUMTER COUNTY
 
AT 1015 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF AMERICUS MOVING TO THE NORTH
AT 10 TO 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR AMERICUS BY 1025 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN..N.
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

Local storm report, May 7, 7:54 PM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FOR DATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
740 PM EDT TUE MAY 7 1996

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

406 PM     NR DUCKTOWN               GA   HALF DOLLAR SIZED HAIL REPORTED
5/7/96     FORSYTH                        BY SHERIFFS DEPT

420 PM     CUMMING                   GA   QUARTER SIZED HAIL REPORTED
5/7/96     FORSYTH                        BY SHERIFFS DEPT

440 PM     COHUTTA                   GA   DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED
5/7/96     WHITFIELD                      BY PUBLIC

510 PM     5W OSCARVILLE             GA   QUARTER TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE
5/6/96     FORSYTH                        HAIL REPORTED BY CUMMING POLICE.

530PM      COMMERCE                  GA   QUARTER TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL
           JACKSON                        REPORTED BY JACKSON 911

550PM      ILA                       GA   GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
5/7/96     MADISON                        BY EMA OGLETHORPE COUNTY

600 PM     POCATALIGO                GA   911 REPORTED SEVERAL UNCON-
5/7/96     MADISON                        FIRMED REPORTS OF TORNADO..
                                          MORE INFO COMING

JB

Local storm report, May 7, 9:49 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
950 PM EDT TUE MAY 7 1996

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

600 PM     ILA                       GA   HAIL SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN
5/7/96     MADISON                        GOLF BALL SIZE REPORTED BY
                                          MADISON 911

600 PM     DANIELSVILLE              GA   GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL
5/7/96     MADISON                        REPORTED BY SPOTTER

630 PM     ARCADE                    GA   DIME TO GOLF BALL SIZED
5/7/96     JACKSON                        HAIL REPORTED BY JACKSON
                                          911

630 PM     REDSTONE                  GA   DIME TO GOLF BALL SIZED
5/7/96     JACKSON                        HAIL REPORTED BY JACKSON
                                          911
645 PM     TIGNALL                   GA   FORD EMPLOYEE REPORTED
5/7/96     WILKES                         GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL

TMS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 9:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock	54 min
May 8, 12:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Monroe	49 min
May 8, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley	49 min
May 8, 6:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilkinson	54 min
May 8, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Washington	43 min
May 8, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilkinson	15 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.