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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 345, NWS Atlanta, GA

November 8, 1996Laurens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 8, 1996, 6:00 AM EST for Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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: Nov 8, 1996, 6:00 AM EST (11:00 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 1996, 6:30 AM EST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Laurens County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 8, 6:00 AM EST	Tornado F1	Dexter, 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KATL 081102 RRA
SVRATL
GAC175-081130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
600 AM EST FRI NOV 8 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...LAURENS COUNTY
 
AT 558 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER DEXTER IN WESTERN LAURENS COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT
40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY CAUSE DAMAGING WINDS.
 
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 8, 12:22 AM EST, 5 hours 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
120 AM EDT FRI NOV 8 1996

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

1150 PM    5SE DAHLONEGA             GA   WIND DAMAGE
11/07/96   LUMPKIN                        HAM REPORTED TREES DOWN AND
                                          POSSIBLE INJURIES ON MOUNT
                                          OLIVE CHURCH RD

1205 AM    CLEVELAND                 GA   WIND DAMAGE
11/08/96   WHITE                          EMA DIRECTOR REPORTED
                                          DAMAGE TO A GROCERY STORE

Local storm report, Nov 8, 12:41 AM EST, 5 hours 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
140 AM EDT FRI NOV 8 1996

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

1201 AM    5 SE DAHLONEGA            GA   WIND DAMAGE
11/08/96   WHITE                          WHITE CO EMA DIRECTOR
                                          REPORTED 3 PEOPLE TRAPPED
                                          IN A HOUSE ON MT OLIVE
v                                          CHURCH RD

Local storm report, Nov 8, 2:20 AM EST, 3 hours 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
218 AM EST FRI NOV 8 1996

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

1205 AM    CLEVELAND                 GA   WIND DAMAGE
11/7/96    WHITE                          WIND DAMAGE REPORTED AT A
                                          LOCAL GROCERY STORE.

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 7, 11:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lumpkin, White	25 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, 6:22 AM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Laurens	38 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.