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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 223, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1996, 6:20 PM EDT for Floyd County, Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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 7, 1996, 6:20 PM EDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1996, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Floyd County, GA, Polk County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 546 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1134 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 7, 3:32 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
GAZ001>038-041>050-052>060-066>072-078>082-091-094-072330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 330 PM EDT FRI JUN 7 1996 ...UNSETTLED WEATHER FOR NORTHWEST GEORGIA THROUGH SATURDAY... A STRONG UPPER-LEVEL STORM SYSTEM APPROACHING GEORGIA FROM THE NORTHWEST ALONG WITH A COLD FRONT MOVING FROM THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY INTO THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES WILL COLLIDE WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS ACROSS THE REGION TO PRODUCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE STATE THIS WEEKEND. NORTHWEST GEORGIA...GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM BUENA VISTA TO ATHENS...WILL SEE THE CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. THE GREATEST THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM SYSTEM LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. RESIDENTS AND VISITORS TO NORTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD PLAN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES FOR THIS WEEKEND WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER IN MIND...NEVER STAY OUTDOORS IN A THUNDERSTORM. EVERYONE ACROSS NORTHWEST GEORGIA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF DANGEROUS WEATHER THREATENS. KEEP LISTENING TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. MSS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Meriwether | 40 min |
| Jun 7, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 48 min |
| Jun 7, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd | 44 min |
| Jun 7, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 36 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1996Every 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.