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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 254, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 20, 1996Webster County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1996, 5:25 PM EDT for Webster County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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, 5:25 PM EDT (21:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 1996, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Webster County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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 202124
SVRATL
GAC307-202200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
525 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 WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...WEBSTER COUNTY
 
AT 524 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR PRESTON
MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 15 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 RA~INS 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

Special weather statement, Jun 20, 2:54 PM EDT, 2 hours 31 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, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Monroe	53 min
Jun 20, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Upson	34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.