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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 186, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 8, 1996Wilkinson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1996, 6:51 PM EDT for Wilkinson County, Georgia. It was in force for 54 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 8, 1996, 6:51 PM EDT (22:51 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 1996, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Wilkinson County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 8, 6:58 PM EDT	Hail 1.25	Allentown, 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -182 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 945 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 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 082252
SVRATL
GAC319-082345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
651 PM EDT WED MAY 8 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...WILKINSON COUNTY
 
AT 650 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM NEAR DANVILLE IN
TWIGGS COUNTY MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. THIS HAS BEEN ACCOMPANIED BY
NICKLE SIZE HAIL. THE STORM WILL PASS NEAR IRWINTON BY 715 PM.
 
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.
 
 
 
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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 8, 2:52 PM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before

GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-
091>098-103>113-082200-

NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
250 PM EDT WED MAY 8 1996

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN GEORGIA
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MOSTLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM ATLANTA TO
ATHENS.

A WEAK FRONT LOCATED OVER EASTERN TENNESSEE AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA WILL
BE SLOW TO MOVE OUT OF THE STATE TODAY. THE AIRMASS REMAINS UNSTABLE
AND THE FRONT WILL TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW SEVERE...PRIMARILY
OVER THE NORTH...WITH WIDELY SCATTERED STORMS CENTRAL.

SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PEOPLE SHOULD KEEP AWARE OF WEATHER
DEVELOPMENTS THIS AFTERNOON.

WRS

Local storm report, May 8, 5:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
515 PM EDT WED MAY 8 1996

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

530 PM     VESTA                     GA   QUARTER SIZED HAIL
5/7/96

TMS

Local storm report, May 8, 5:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FOR LOCATION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
515 PM EDT WED MAY 8 1996

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

530 PM     VESTA                     GA   QUARTER SIZED HAIL
5/7/96     OGLETHORPE

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 7, 10:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter	44 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.