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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 13, 1996Oconee County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Apr 13, 1996, 5:58 PM EDT for Oconee County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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: Apr 13, 1996, 5:58 PM EDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 1996, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Area: Whole counties

County Oconee County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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
Apr 13, 6:00 PM EDT	Hail 1	Watkinsville, 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 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 111 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: 28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 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 132200
TORATL
GAC219-132230-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
558 PM EDT SAT APR 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
 
   ...OCONEE COUNTY
 
AT 6 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILE SOUTH
OF FARMINGTON IN OCONEE COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.  THIS
STORM WAS DEVELOPING A TORNADO NEAR FARMINGTON.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIORZ ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 13, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Gwinnett, Rockdale, Walton	53 min
Apr 13, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taylor	49 min
Apr 13, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan, Oconee, Walton	43 min
Apr 13, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford	37 min
Apr 13, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Oglethorpe	53 min
Apr 13, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taliaferro, Wilkes	46 min
Apr 13, 7:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Monroe	39 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.