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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 20, 1996Monroe County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1996, 5:07 PM EDT for Monroe County, Georgia. It was in force for 53 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 20, 1996, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 1996, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Monroe County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 67 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: 366 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1074 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 18 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 202106
SVRATL
GAC207-202200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
507 PM EDT THU JUN 20 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...MONROE COUNTY
 
AT 500 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORSYTH IN MONROE COUNTY MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
 
 
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 POSSIBLhE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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 20, 2:54 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

GAZ072-080>082-201945-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
255 PM EDT THU JUN 20 1996

  ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED FROM TAYLOR COUNTY
     NORTHEAST THROUGH BIBB TO JONES COUNTIES...

AT 245 PM WEATHER RADARS HAVE SHOWN A LINE OF VERY HEAVY SHOWERS AND
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM NEAR BUTLER TO JUST SOUTH OF
MACON...THEN CONTINUING NORTHEAST TO GRAY IN JONES COUNTY. THESE
STORMS HAVE BEING MOVING TO THE EAST NEAR 10 MILES.

AT 230 PM WINDS GUSTING TO 52 MILES AN HOUR WERE OBSERVED AT MIDDLE
GEORGIA AIRPORT AT MACON. RAINFALL RATES OF ABOUT 1 INCH AN HOUR
HAVE ALSO BEEN OBSERVED FROM RADAR DATA.

PERSONS LIVING IN THE FOUR COUNTY AREA OF TAYLOR...CRAWFORD...BIBB
AND JONES COUNTIES WILL EXPERIENCE WINDS GUSTY BETWEEN 40 AND 50
MPH...VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...AND POSSIBILITY SMALL HAIL. FLOOD
STREETS...LOW AREAS...SMALL STREAMS WILL LIKELY OCCUR THE NEXT FEW
HOURS.

G2B

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Webster	35 min
Jun 20, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Upson	34 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.