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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 331, NWS Atlanta, GA

September 16, 1996Talbot County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 1996, 6:03 PM EDT for Talbot County, Georgia. It was in force for 22 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
Sep 16, 1996, 6:03 PM EDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired
Sep 16, 1996, 6:25 PM EDT
In force
22 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

County Talbot County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 1996-09-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 199 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 1996-09-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 224 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
199 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
224 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
284 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 162203
SVRATL
GAC263-162225-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
603 PM EDT MON SEP 16 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  625 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...TALBOT COUNTY
 
AT 600 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF TALBOTTON MOVING EAST AT 30 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 ROADS 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 16, 12:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCatoosa, Walker, Whitfield44 min
Sep 16, 1:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGilmer, Murray44 min
Sep 16, 1:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGordon, Pickens49 min
Sep 16, 1:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGordon, Pickens46 min
Sep 16, 3:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett, Walton39 min
Sep 16, 3:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb39 min
Sep 16, 5:42 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCNewton, Rockdale33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.