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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 190, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 23, 1996Montgomery County, Wheeler County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1996, 5:21 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Wheeler County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 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 23, 1996, 5:21 PM EDT (21:21 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 1996, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Montgomery County, GA, Wheeler County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 1402 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 939 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 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 232123
SVRATL
GAC209-309-232200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
521 PM EDT THU MAY 23 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...MONTGOMERY COUNTY...WHEELER COUNTY
 
AT 520 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER FAR SOUTHERN WHEELER AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES. THESE
STORMS SHOWED LITTLE MOVEMENT AND WILL LIKELY DROP LARGE HAIL.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VELRY 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 23, 1:15 PM EDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before

GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-
091>098-103>113-232330-

NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
115 PM EDT THU MAY 23 1996

NO THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER NORTH OR CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY.

HIGH PRESSURE WILL DOMINATE THE WEATHER OVER THE REGION TODAY.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY.

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.