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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 283, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 13, 1996Dooly County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1996, 7:29 PM EDT for Dooly County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 13, 1996, 7:29 PM EDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 1996, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Dooly County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 13, 7:45 PM EDTThunderstorm WindVienna, GA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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 12:00Z on 1996-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 285 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1996-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 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
285 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1115 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 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 132330
SVRATL
GAC093-140015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
729 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...DOOLY COUNTY
 
AT 725 PM WEATHER RADAR INDUCATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
VIENNA...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. DUE TO ITS SLOW MOVEMENT AND
ACCOMPANYING RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO TWO INCHES AN HOUR THIS STORM MAY
PRODUCE LOCALLIZED FLOODING.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T^ USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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 13, 5:26 PM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
GAZ080-093>095-132230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
526 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 1996

AT 5:20 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
EXTENDING FROM REYNOLDS TO RUPERT MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS
STORM WILL MOVE INTO PEACH AND MACON COUNTIES BY 5:35 PM AND OVER FT.
VALLEY AND MONTEZUMA BY 5:45 PM. THIS STORM MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY WIND
GUSTS TO 35 MPH...HEAVY RAIN TO ONE AND ONE-HALF INCHES PER
HOUR...FREQUENT LIGHTNING.
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 5:29 PM EDT, 2 hours before
GAZ036-132230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
530 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 1996

DUE TO SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA PRODUCING RAINFALL
AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES AN HOUR...MINOR FLOODING OF STREETS AND
LOW-LYING AREAS IS OCCURRING.  WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 MPH ARE ALSO
POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS WHICH WILL BE MOVING OUT OF THE ATHENS AREA
BY 550 PM EDT.

TMS
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 6:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
GAZ108-132300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
600 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 1996

AT 555 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES
SOUTH OF ABBEVILLE NEARLY STATIONARY. THIS STORM WILL BE ACCOMPANIED
BY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR WHICH MAY PRODUCE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. THIS STORM MAY ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY WINDS TO
35 MPH AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 6:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
GAZ104-132315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
613 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 1996

AT 6:10 PM DT WETHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
AMERICUS MOVING NO
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 6:14 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
GAZ104-132315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
613 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 1996

AT 6:10 PM DT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
AMERICUS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE
RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO AN INCH PER HOUR...WINDS TO 40
MPH...AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING
SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.
TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR
THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 7:15 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
GAZ105>108-140020-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
716 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 1996

AT 710 WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST DOOLEY AND
WESTERN CRISP MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WILL ENTER
EAST DOOLEY AND EAST CRISP COUNTIES BY 7:40 PM AND WILL ENTER PULASKI
AND WILCOX COUNTIES BY 8:00 PM. THESE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY RAIN
FALL RATES OF UP TO 1.5 INCHES AN HOUR...WITH WIND GUSTS TO 35 MILES AN
HOUR...AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING
SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.
TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STALTION FOR
THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 7:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrisp46 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.