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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Atlanta, GA

March 6, 19964 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 6, 1996, 9:29 AM EST for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 46 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 6, 1996, 9:29 AM EST (14:29 UTC)
Expired
Mar 6, 1996, 10:15 AM EST
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bleckley County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Twiggs County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:29 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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 238 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-03-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 243 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1996-03-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 192 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
503 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
307 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KATL 061430 RRA
SVRATL
GAC023-091-235-289-061515-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
929 AM EST WED MAR 6 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
 
   ...BLECKLEY COUNTY...NORTHERN DODGE COUNTY...PULASKI COUNTY
   ...TWIGGS COUNTY
 
AT 930 AM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR WARNER ROBINS TO VIENNA MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNxADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 7:30 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris30 min
Mar 6, 7:56 AM ESTTornado WarningFFCMeriwether, Talbot34 min
Mar 6, 8:00 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMarion45 min
Mar 6, 8:06 AM ESTTornado WarningFFCMarion39 min
Mar 6, 8:15 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCSchley, Taylor45 min
Mar 6, 8:26 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMacon, Sumter, Webster49 min
Mar 6, 8:44 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningFFCCobb, Fulton4 hr
Mar 6, 8:44 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningFFCDeKalb, Gwinnett4 hr
Mar 6, 8:47 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrawford, Peach43 min
Mar 6, 9:00 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDooly, Houston45 min
Mar 6, 9:22 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton, Fulton53 min
Mar 6, 10:20 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMeriwether, Troup40 min
Mar 6, 11:13 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley, Houston, Pulaski47 min
Mar 6, 11:36 AM ESTTornado WarningFFCBleckley, Dodge, Pulaski54 min
Mar 6, 11:49 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens26 min
Mar 6, 12:06 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCLaurens54 min
Mar 6, 12:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCEmanuel, Johnson, Treutlen47 min
Mar 6, 12:35 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCrisp, Wilcox25 min
Mar 6, 12:45 PM ESTTornado WarningFFCWilcox30 min
Mar 6, 1:02 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDodge, Telfair43 min
Mar 6, 1:39 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMarion, Talbot, Taylor51 min
Mar 6, 6:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee, Forsyth45 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.