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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 276, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 5, 1996Taliaferro County, Warren County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1996, 7:43 AM EDT for Taliaferro County, Warren County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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
Jul 5, 1996, 7:43 AM EDT (11:43 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1996, 8:15 AM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Taliaferro County, GA, Warren County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:45 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 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 160 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1996-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1996-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 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 051145
SVRATL
GAC301-265-051215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
743 AM EDT FRI JUL 5 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...WARREN COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...TALIAFERRO COUNTY
 
AT 745 AM WEATHER RADAR INDUCATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF
CRAWFORDVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST 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 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, Jul 5, 7:29 AM EDT, 14 minutes before
GAZ038-039-050-051-061-062-051215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
718 AM EDT FRI JUL 5 1996

A THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NORTH FROM HANCOCK COUNTY TO BE IN SOUTHWEST
TALIAFERRO COUNTY BY 735 AM AND TO BE OVER LYNEVILLE BY 805 AM AND
OVER RAYLE IN WILKES COUNTY BY 835 AM. THIS STORM MAY BE ACCOMPANIED
BY GUSTY WINDS TO 35 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 1:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrisp, Dooly53 min
Jul 5, 2:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCTwiggs, Wilkinson62 min
Jul 5, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCEmanuel30 min
Jul 5, 2:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJefferson42 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.