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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 279, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1996, 2:30 PM EDT for Emanuel County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1996, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 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 18:32 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 12:00Z, 6.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1164 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 051832 SVRATL GAC107-051900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 230 PM EDT FRI JUL 5 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA ...EMANUEL COUNTY AT 228 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR SWAINSBORO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR SUMMERTOWN BY 235 PM. 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, 12:12 PM EDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-060300- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1211 PM EDT FRI JUL 5 1996 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH GEORGIA WILL SPREAD OVER NORTH GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AS A WARM FRONT MOVE ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA. SCATTERED STRONG STORMS HAVE ALREADY DEVELOPED ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH GEORGIA AND THESE WILL SLOWLY SPREAD INTO NORTHWARD THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH STRONG WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 12:18 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-060300- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...CORRECT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1218 PM EDT FRI JUL 5 1996 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH GEORGIA WILL SPREAD OVER NORTH GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AS A WARM FRONT MOVES ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA. SCATTERED STRONG STORMS HAVE ALREADY DEVELOPED ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH GEORGIA AND THESE WILL SLOWLY SPREAD NORTHWARD THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH STRONG WINDS AND POSSIBL Y SMALL HAIL. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 12:21 PM EDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-060300- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1220 PM EDT FRI JUL 5 1996 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH GEORGIA WILL SPREAD OVER NORTH GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AS A WARM FRONT MOVES ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA. SCATTERED STRONG STORMS HAVE ALREADY DEVELOPED ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH GEORGIA AND THESE WILL SLOWLY SPREAD NORTHWARD THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH STRONG WINDS AND POSSI&BLY SMALL HAIL. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 7:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro, Warren | 32 min |
| Jul 5, 1:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly | 53 min |
| Jul 5, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 62 min |
| Jul 5, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 42 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.