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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 321, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 27, 1996Taylor County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1996, 5:23 PM EDT for Taylor County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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: Aug 27, 1996, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired: Aug 27, 1996, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Taylor County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 27, 5:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Reynolds, 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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 246 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1530 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 763 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KATL 272123
SVRATL
GAC269-272200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
523 PM EDT TUE AUG 27 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...TAYLOR COUNTY
 
AT 520 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
BUTLER...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD RhOADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 26, 9:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall, Jackson	37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1996 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.