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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 342, NWS Atlanta, GA

November 7, 1996Lumpkin County, White County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1996, 11:50 PM EST for Lumpkin County, White County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 min. 2 reports 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: Nov 7, 1996, 11:50 PM EST (04:50 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 1996, 12:15 AM EST
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lumpkin County, GA, White County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:50 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 7, 11:50 PM EST	Tornado F1	Dahlonega, GA
Nov 8, 12:00 AM EST	Tornado F0	Cleveland, 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 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 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 080452
SVRATL
GAC187-311-080515-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1150 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...LUMPKIN COUNTY...WHITE COUNTY
 
AT 1145 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF
DAHLONEGA 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.
 
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.

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, 40 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 7, 7:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd	39 min
Nov 7, 9:14 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Heard	31 min
Nov 7, 9:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson	26 min
Nov 7, 9:31 PM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Haralson	19 min
Nov 7, 9:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Paulding	33 min
Nov 7, 11:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Forsyth	36 min
Nov 8, 1:48 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Upson	27 min
Nov 8, 4:48 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly, Houston	27 min
Nov 8, 6:00 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	30 min
Nov 8, 6:22 AM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Laurens	38 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.