Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 1996, 8:10 PM EDT for Bibb County, Jones County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 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, 8:10 PM EDT (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 1996, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bibb County, GA, Jones County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 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, 8:21 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Macon, 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 316 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1487 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 140012 SVRATL GAC021-169-140100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 810 PM EDT SAT APR 13 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...BIBB COUNTY...SOUTHERN JONES COUNTY AT 808 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BOLINGBROKE IN SOUTH MONROE COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. 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. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL T|HE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Apr 13, 7:24 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 721 PM EDT SAT APR 13 1996 TIME COUNTY EVENT 526 PM EDT WALTON OVER MONROE, GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY PUBLIC
Local storm report, Apr 13, 7:26 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 724 PM EDT SAT APR 13 1996 TIME COUNTY EVENT 551 PM EDT MORGAN OVER NORTH MORGAN COUNTY DEPUTY REPORTED QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
Local storm report, Apr 13, 7:28 PM EDT, 42 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
726 PM EDT SAT APR 13 1996
TIME COUNTY EVENT
602 PM EDT TAYLOR QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN THE NORTH PART
OF THE COUNTY BY THE PUBLIC.Local storm report, Apr 13, 7:30 PM EDT, 40 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
728 PM EDT SAT APR 13 1996
TIME COUNTY EVENT
620 PM EDT OCONEE QUARTER SIZE HAIL TWO INCHES DEEP REPORTED BY
CIVIL DEFENSE NEAR WATKINSVILLEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 8:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 32 min |
| Apr 13, 9:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 53 min |
| Apr 13, 10:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 26 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.