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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 288, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 17, 1996Macon County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1996, 3:21 PM EDT for Macon County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 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 17, 1996, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 1996, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Macon County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 1996-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 951 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 1996-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -27 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
951 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
810 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-22 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 171922
SVRATL
GAC193-172000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
321 PM EDT WED JUL 17 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...MACON COUNTY
 
AT 320 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDESTORM 5 MILES WEST THROUGH 5 MILES SOUTH OF OGLETHORPE MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS.
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 17, 3:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSchley, Taylor37 min
Jul 17, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHouston, Peach36 min
Jul 17, 6:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll36 min
Jul 17, 7:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClarke29 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.