Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 1996, 9:58 AM EST for Coweta County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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 31, 1996, 9:58 AM EST (14:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 1996, 10:30 AM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Coweta County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 24 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 311459 RRA SVRATL GAC077-311530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 958 AM EST SUN MAR 31 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA ...COWETA COUNTY A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED BY COWETA 911 AT 950 AM NEAR MORELAND IN SOUTH COWETA COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. MARBLE SIZE 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. 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
Special weather statement, Mar 31, 6:50 AM EST, 3 hours 8 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-311700- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 650 AM EST SUN MAR 31 1996 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT OVER MOST OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA...PARTICULARLY ACROSS THE AREA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ROME TO ATLANTA TO THE AUGUSTA VICINITY. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE AREA AND ITS ASSOCIATED SURFACE COLD FRONT WAS MOVING EAST ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER THIS MORNING. THIS SYSTEM IS FORECAST TO MOVE INTO GEORGIA LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE ACROSS GEORGIA IN ADVANCE OF THIS FRONTAL SYSTEM WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BECOMING LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. DUE TO THE STRENGTH OF THIS SYSTEM IT IS LIKELY THAT SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT IS LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS BUT THERE IS ALSO THE POSSIBILITY OF ISOLATED TORNADOES. SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION TODAY AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.
Special weather statement, Mar 31, 6:59 AM EST, 2 hours 59 minutes before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 091>098-103>113-311700- NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 650 AM EST SUN MAR 31 1996 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT OVER MOST OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA...PARTICULARLY ACROSS THE AREA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ROME TO ATLANTA TO THE AUGUSTA VICINITY. AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE AREA AND ITS ASSOCIATED SURFACE COLD FRONT WAS MOVING EAST ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER THIS MORNING. THIS SYSTEM IS FORECAST TO MOVE INTO GEORGIA LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE ACROSS GEORGIA IN ADVANCE OF THIS FRONTAL SYSTEM WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BECOMING LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. DUE TO THE STRENGTH OF THIS SYSTEM IT IS LIKELY THAT SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT IS LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGBING THUNDERSTORM WINDS BUT THERE IS ALSO THE POSSIBILITY OF ISOLATED TORNADOES. SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION TODAY AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 3:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1996Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.