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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 269, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 25, 1996Telfair County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1996, 6:10 PM EDT for Telfair 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 25, 1996, 6:10 PM EDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 1996, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Telfair County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 198 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2019 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -35 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2019 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1348 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-2 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 252209
SVRATL
GAC271-252245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
610 PM EDT TUE JUN 25 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...TELFAIR COUNTY
 
AT 608 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NEAR MCRAE 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 POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROMl 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 25, 2:48 PM EDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
GAZ032-033-042>045-053-054-251945-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
253 PM EDT TUE JUN 25 1996

...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE AGAIN REDEVELOPED OVER THE
WESTERN AND SOUTHERN PART OF THE ATLANTA METRO AREA...

AT 240 PM THE PEACHTREE CITY RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH
HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM NEAR ACTWORTH TO CARROLLTON...THEN EAST TO
HAPEVILLE AND PEACHTREE CITY AND ATLANTA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO
THE SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR. COBB COUNTY 911 REPORTED
VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES.

AT 230 PM WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MILES AN HOUR WAS REPORTED AT
DOBBINS AIR FORCE BASE AT MARIETTA. THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS
RECEIVED AT THIS TIME OF WIND DAMAGE WITH THIS STORM. WEATHER RADAR
NOW SHOWS THE STORM HAVING WEAKENED AND MOVING INTO FULTON COUNTY.

STORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE ATLANTA AREA WHICH INCLUDES
COBB...FULTON...CAROL...COWETA...FAYETTA...AND CLAYTON COUNTIES.
VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MPH ...AND CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING WILL LIKELY OCCUR AS THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE
EAST AND SOUTHEAST OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.

G2B

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 3:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPaulding35 min
Jun 25, 3:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton, DeKalb, Henry36 min
Jun 25, 3:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCRockdale36 min
Jun 25, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCNewton27 min
Jun 25, 4:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCButts, Jasper32 min
Jun 25, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDooly, Macon30 min
Jun 25, 4:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCoweta, Meriwether35 min
Jun 25, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPulaski31 min
Jun 25, 5:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley, Dodge26 min
Jun 25, 5:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley, Dodge34 min
Jun 25, 6:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1996Every 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.