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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 244, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 13, 1996Twiggs County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1996, 5:55 PM EDT for Twiggs County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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: Jun 13, 1996, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1996, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Twiggs County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 13, 6:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Bullard, 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 1734 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 825 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 132155
SVRATL
GAC289-132230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
555 PM EDT THU JUN 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...TWIGGS COUNTY
 
AT 555 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN
TWIGGS COUNTY OVER BULLARD DRIFTING EAST.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHO<ULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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 13, 1:25 PM EDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...UPDATED REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
120 PM EDT THU JUN 13 1996

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

700 PM TO  COVINGTON  TO CONYERS     GA   GOLFBALL TO BASEBALL
715 PM     NEWTON        ROCKDALE         SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
6/12/96                                   PUBLIC TO WSB-TV BETWEEN
                                          CONYERS AND COVINGTON GA.

Local storm report, Jun 13, 3:47 PM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...UPDATED REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
344 PM EDT THU JUN 13 1996

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

215 PM     1 N AMERICUS              GA   POWER LINES DOWN.
6/13/96    SUMTER

237 PM     ATLANTA                   GA   EVENT TENT(CIRCUS TENT)
6/13/96    FULTON                         BLOWN OVER AT ATLANTA
                       l                   FULTON COUNTY STADIUM.
                                          TWO MINOR INJURIES.

316 PM     MONTICELLO                GA   TREES DOWN IN TOWN OF
6/13/96    JASPER                         MONTICELLO.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 9:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock	30 min
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

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.