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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 251, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 15, 1996Emanuel County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1996, 8:14 PM EDT for Emanuel County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 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 15, 1996, 8:14 PM EDT (00:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1996, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Emanuel County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:15 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 218 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: 1086 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 862 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 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 160014
SVRATL
GAC107-160100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
814 PM EDT SAT JUN 15 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...EMANUEL COUNTY
 
AT 810 PM EDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN
CANOOCHEE AND TWIN CITY IN EASTERN EMANUEL COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS
DRIFTING SLOWLY TO THE WEST SOUTHWEST. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THIS
STORM IS LARGE HAIL.
 
 
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 15, 4:41 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
440 PM EDT SAT JUN 15 1996

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

417 PM     UNADILLA                  GA   PEA SIZE HAIL. FEW POWER LINES
6/15/96    DOOLY                          DOWN. REPORTED BY DOOLY CO. 911

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin	41 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.