Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 1996, 6:38 PM EDT for Bleckley County, Dodge County, Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 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 20, 1996, 6:38 PM EDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 1996, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bleckley County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Laurens County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 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 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 680 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 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 202237 SVRATL GAC023-091-175-202330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 638 PM EDT SAT APR 20 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ...BLECKLEY COUNTY...DODGE COUNTY...LAURENS COUNTY AT 635 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING STRONG DAMAGING WINDS FROM NORTHERN LAURENS COUNTY TO NORTHERN BLECKLEY COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT DUBLIN AND COCHRAN BY 645 PM AND EASTMAN BY 7PM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMB(ER 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
Special weather statement, Apr 20, 4:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
GAZ049-050-056-058>060-067>072-078-079-202130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 435 PM EDT SAT APR 20 1996 AT 426 PM EDT A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR GREENSBORO IN GREENE COUNTY THROUGH BUTTS COUNTY TO NORTHWEST HARRIS NEAR HAMILTON. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD EXPECT WINDS GUSTING TO 40 TO 450 MILES AN HOUR...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT FOR MOST OF THE NORTHERN HALF OF GEORGIA. KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 20, 5:38 PM EDT, 1 hour before
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-091> 098-103>113-202215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 530 PM EDT SAT APR 20 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 202 CANCELLED FOR PARTS OF NORTHERN GEORGIA AT 530 PM... THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED NORTH OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM WARRENTON THROUGH MCDONOUGH TO LAGRANGE...INCLUDING ATLANTA AND ATHENS. THE REMAINDER OF THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR COUNTIES FROM TALBOT TO GLASCOCK INCLUDING THE CITY OF MACON. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA AND COULD STILL PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER INCLUDING DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL UP TO ONE INCH. DH
Local storm report, Apr 20, 6:16 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
443 PM EST SAT APR 20 1996
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
259 PM 2N BOWDEN GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
4/20/96 CARROLL SPOTTER REPORTED DIME-NICKLE
SIZE HAIL
320 PM WOODSTOCK GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
4/20/96 CHEROKEE REPORTED BY FIRE DEPT
320 PM CARROLLTON GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
4/20/96 CARROLL HAM OPERATOR REPORTED
DIME SIZE HAIL AT WEST
GEORGIA COLLEGE
334 PM MARIETTA GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
4/20/96 COBB REPORTED BY MARIETTA 911
337 PM AUSTELL GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
4/20/96 COBB REPORTED BY HAM RADIO OPERATOR
NEAR I-20 AND BANKHEAD HWY
340 PM VININGS GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
4/20/96 COBB REPORTED BY THE WEATHER CHANNEL
341 PM DULUTH GA 0.75 INCH HAIL (COVERING THE GROUND)
4/20/96 GWINNETT REPORTED BY CNN
355 PM SMYRNA GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
4/20/96 COBB REPORTED BY THE WEATHER CHANNEL
NMLocal storm report, Apr 20, 6:18 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
615 PM EDT SAT APR 20 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
259 PM 2N BOWDEN GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
4/20/96 CARROLL SPOTTER REPORTED DIME-NICKLE
SIZE HAIL
320 PM WOODSTOCK GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
4/20/96 CHEROKEE REPORTED BY FIRE DEPT
320 PM CARROLLTON GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
4/20/96 CARROLL HAM OPERATOR REPORTED
DIME SIZE HAIL AT WEST
GEORGIA COLLEGE
334 PM MARIETTA GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
4/20/96 COBB REPORTED BY MARIETTA 911
337 PM AUSTELL GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
4/20/96 COBB REPORTED BY HAM RADIO OPERATOR
NEAR I-20 AND BANKHEAD HWY
340 PM VININGS GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
4/20/96 COBB REPORTED BY THE WEATHER CHANNEL
341 PM DULUTH GA 0.75 INCH HAIL (COVERING THE GROUND)
4/20/96 GWINNETT REPORTED BY CNN
355 PM SMYRNA GA 0.75 INCH HAIL
4/20/96 COBB REPORTED BY THE WEATHER CHANNEL
NMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 10:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker, Whitfield | 52 min |
| Apr 20, 11:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 31 min |
| Apr 20, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 50 min |
| Apr 20, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Paulding | 53 min |
| Apr 20, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 53 min |
| Apr 20, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 45 min |
| Apr 20, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs | 27 min |
| Apr 20, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Peach | 35 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.