Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 1996, 10:19 PM EDT for Bibb County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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
- Apr 13, 1996, 10:19 PM EDT (02:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 1996, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bibb County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:18 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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 140220 SVRATL GAC021-140245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1019 PM EDT SAT APR 13 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...NORTHERN BIBB COUNTY AT 1018 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF MACON...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. 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.
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, 2 hours 55 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, 2 hours 53 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, 2 hours 51 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, 2 hours 49 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 WATKINSVILLELocal storm report, Apr 13, 8:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
830 PM EDT SAT APR 13 1996
TIME COUNTY EVENT
821 PM EDT BIBB DIME SIZE HAIL JUST WEST OF MACON AT
v THIS TIME REPORTED BY THE COUNTY EMA.
JBLocal storm report, Apr 13, 10:02 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
728 PM EDT SAT APR 13 1996
TIME COUNTY EVENT
600 PM EDT OCONEE QUARTER SIZE HAIL TWO INCHES DEEP REPORTED BY
CIVIL DEFENSE NEAR WATKINSVILLE
540 PM EDT TAYLOR QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN THE NORTH PART
OF COUNTY BY THE PUBLIC.
600 PM EDT OCONEE QUARTER SIZE HAIL TWO INCHES DEEP REPORTED BY
CIVIL DEFENSE NEAR WATKINSVILLE.
522 PM EDT WALTON OVER MONROE, GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
PUBLIC.
CORRECTED TIMES OF EVENTS INSTEAD OF TIME OF CALL.The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones | 50 min |
| 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 |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.