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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 4, 1996Clarke County, Oconee County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1996, 4:46 PM EDT for Clarke County, Oconee County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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: Jun 4, 1996, 4:46 PM EDT (20:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 1996, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Clarke County, GA, Oconee County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 85 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1018 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 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 042046
SVRATL
GAC059-219-042115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
446 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...SOUTHERN CLARKE COUNTY...OCONEE COUNTY
 
AT 4:44 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF WATKINSVILLE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
 
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, Jun 4, 11:10 AM EDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before

GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-
091>098-103>113-042200-

NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1115 AM EDT TUE JUN 4 1996

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH GEORGIA
THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING FROM THE ATLANTA AND ATHENS AREAS
NORTHWARD. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS OVER
CENTRAL GEORGIA.

A SLOW MOVING...WEAK COLD FRONT OVER WEST CENTRAL TENNESSEE WILL MOVE
TOWARD THE TENNESSEE VALLEY TODAY. MODERATELY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR
AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL ALLOW WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. ACROSS
NORTH GEORGIA...GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM ATLANTA TO ATHENS...
SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL THE MAIN
THREAT.

SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS IN NORTH GEORGIA SHOULD
REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.

MSS

Local storm report, Jun 4, 4:00 PM EDT, 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
358 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 1996

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

341 PM     MAGNET                    GA   WIND DAMAGE
6/4/96     ROCKDALE                       SEVERAL TREES AND POWER LINES
                                           DOWN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Rockdale	37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1996 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.