Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 1996, 6:31 AM EST for McDuffie County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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
- Mar 17, 1996, 6:31 AM EST (11:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 1996, 7:00 AM EST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County McDuffie County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:35 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 188 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 477 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCAE 171131 RRA SVRCAE GAC189-171200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 631 AM EST SUN MAR 17 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN GEORGIA ...SOUTHERN MCDUFFIE COUNTY AT 626 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN GLASCOCK AND WARREN COUNTIES. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN MCDUFFIE BY 645AM. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PASS CLOSE TO DEARING AND HARLEM. LARGE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. AWP &
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, Mar 17, 12:34 AM EST, 5 hours 57 minutes before
STORM REPORT CORRECTED...CORR
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
1234 AM EST SUN MAR 17 1996
TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
1035 PM CASSATT SC 0.75 INCH HAIL
03/16/96 KERSHAW KERSHAW COUNTY SHERIFF
DISPATCH
1036 PM 2 NE CAMDEN SC 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/16/96 KERSHAW WEATHER NET HAM RADIO
OPERATOR
1045 PM RIDGEWAY SC 0.75 INCH HAIL
03/16/96 FAIRFIELD WEATHER SPOTTER
LCVThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 6:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia, Richmond | 25 min |
| Mar 17, 9:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke | 44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.