Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 1996, 6:50 AM EST for Columbia County, Richmond County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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
- Mar 17, 1996, 6:50 AM EST (11:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 1996, 7:15 AM EST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Columbia County, GA, Richmond County, GA
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 7:05 AM EST | Hail 1.75 | Hephzebah, 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 615 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1054 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCAE 171150 RRA SVRCAE GAC073-245-171215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 650 AM EST SUN MAR 17 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN GEORGIA ...COLUMBIA COUNTY...RICHMOND COUNTY AT 645 AM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING THE AUGUSTA METRO AREA. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO RICHMOND AND COLUMBIA COUNTIES BY 700 AM. 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 6:31 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | McDuffie | 29 min |
| Mar 17, 9:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke | 44 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.