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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 12, 1996Hancock County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1996, 9:05 PM EDT for Hancock County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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 12, 1996, 9:05 PM EDT (01:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 1996, 9:35 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Hancock County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 841 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1607 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 130107
SVRATL
GAC141-130135-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
905 PM EDT WED JUN 12 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  935 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...HANCOCK COUNTY
 
AT 905 PM EDT WEATHER RADARS INDICATED AT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AROUND
10 MILES NORTH OF SPARTA. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS MOVING EAST TO
SOUTHEAST 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

Local storm report, Jun 12, 7:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
744 PM EDT WED JUN 12 1996

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

700 PM     5 S CONYERS
6/12/96    ROCKDALE                  GA   QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
                                          ROCKDALE SHERIFF REPORTED

Local storm report, Jun 12, 8:06 PM EDT, 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
805 PM EDT WED JUN 12 1996

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

735 PM     COVINGTON
6/12/96    NEWTONLE                  GA   DIME SIZE HAIL.
                                          REPORTED AT 911 CENTER.

Special weather statement, Jun 12, 9:00 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

GAC125-133-141-265-301-303-130200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
859 PM EDT WED JUN 12 1996

AT 856 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDIATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM
10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPARTA IN HANCOCK COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY
PRODUCE HAIL...GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH THAT MAY PRODUCE MINOR TREE DAMAGE
...AND VERY FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT
30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF HANCOCK COUNTY
THROUGH 945 PM EDT.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 8:19 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion, Webster	41 min
Jun 13, 2:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter	51 min
Jun 13, 2:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Paulding	40 min
Jun 13, 2:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Douglas	40 min
Jun 13, 2:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	35 min
Jun 13, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb	42 min
Jun 13, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper	50 min
Jun 13, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones	26 min
Jun 13, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion, Schley	41 min
Jun 13, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Wheeler	49 min
Jun 13, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Jefferson	47 min
Jun 13, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Twiggs	35 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.