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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 341, NWS Atlanta, GA

November 7, 1996Dawson County, Forsyth County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1996, 11:24 PM EST for Dawson County, Forsyth County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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
Nov 7, 1996, 11:24 PM EST (04:24 UTC)
Expired
Nov 8, 1996, 12:00 AM EST
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Dawson County, GA, Forsyth County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:25 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 112 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 00:00Z on 1996-11-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 700 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 00:00Z on 1996-11-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -244 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
700 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
636 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.8
Supercell composite
-3.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 080425
SVRATL
GAC085-117-080500-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1124 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
 
   ...DAWSON COUNTY...FORSYTH COUNTY
 
AT 1120 PM EST WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
NEAR DUCKTOWN IN WESTERN FORSYTH COUNTY. THE STORM WAS
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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

Local storm report, Nov 7, 11:10 PM EST, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1110 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0930 PM    BUCHANAN                  GA   WIND DAMAGE
11/07/96   HARALSON                       SPOTTER REPORTED SEVERAL
                                          TREES DOWN ON WESLEY CAMP
                                          RD SOUTH OF BUCHANAN

1000 PM    YORKVILLE                 GA   WIND DAMAGE
11/07/96   PAULDING                       PAULDING 911 REPORTED SEVERAL
                                          TREES DOWN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 7, 7:21 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCChattooga, Floyd39 min
Nov 7, 9:14 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCHeard31 min
Nov 7, 9:19 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHaralson26 min
Nov 7, 9:31 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCHaralson19 min
Nov 7, 9:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPaulding33 min
Nov 7, 11:50 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLumpkin, White25 min
Nov 8, 1:48 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCUpson27 min
Nov 8, 4:48 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDooly, Houston27 min
Nov 8, 6:00 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens30 min
Nov 8, 6:22 AM ESTTornado WarningFFCLaurens38 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.